Gods Holy Word might keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace It being a sad thing in his opinion that three Christian and Protestant Kingdomes under one Christian and Protestant King should have three several Confessions of Faith 4. Abolished several idle and barbarous Customs putting the Natives upon ingenious ways of Improving that rich Land by Flax Hemp c. infinitely to the Advantage of the King and Kingdom 5. Recovering near upon 40000 l. per year to the Church which by ungodly Alienations was made saith a Bishop of their own as low as Poverty it self bringing over with him as great Affections for the Church and all Publike Interests as he had Abilities to serve them 6. Put Ireland Anno 1639. in three moneths by a Parliament he got together in that short time into such a posture for Men and Money as was a Pattern to the following Parliament of England which resented that Service so much that the House of Commons gave him the Thankes of the Kingdome in their own House and waited upon him two of their most eminent Members supporting him to his place in the House of Lords In fine he wrought that wilde and loose people to such a degree of Peace Plenty and Security as it had never been since it was annexed to this Crown and made it pay for the Charges of its own Government which before was deducted out of the English Treasury Their Peace and Lawes now opening accesses to Plenty and Trade he remitted indeed nothing of that Authority Strictness Discipline or Grandieur that might advance the Interest or Honor of his Master yet he admitted so much moderation into his Counsels and Proceedings as that Despair added to former Discontents and the Fears of utter Extirpation to their wonted Pressures should not provoke to an open Rebellion a people prone enough to break out to all exorbitant Violence both by some principles of their Religion and the natural desires of Liberty both to exempt themselves from their present restraints and prevent after-rigors And when the Tumults of Scotland and the Discontents of England called for the same Counsel here that he had with success applyed to the distempers of Ireland how clearly did he see thorow the Mutinies and Pretences of the Multitude into the long-contrived Conspiracies and Designs of several orders of more dangerous men whose Covetousness and Ambition would digest as he fore-saw the rash Tumults into a more sober and solemn Rebellion How happily did he divine that the Affronts offered the Kings Authority on the score of Superstition Tyranny Idolatry Male-administration Liberty words as little understood by the Vulgar as the Design that lay under them were no other than Essays made by certain sacrilegious and needy men to confirm the Rapines upon Church and State they had made in Scotland and to open a door to the same practises in England to try how the King who had already ordered a Revocation of all such Vsurpations in Scotland and had a great minde to do the like in England would bear their rude and insolent Attempts whether he would consult his Power or his Goodness assert his Majesty or yield to their importunity How nimbly did he meet with the Faction by a Protestation he gained from all the Scots in England and Ireland against the Covenant of their Brethren in Scotland at the same time in several Books he caused to be printed discovering that the Scottish Faction that so much abhorred Popery proceeded in this Sedition upon the worst of Popish principles and practises And that this Godly League which was so much applauded by the people was a Combination of men acting over those Trayterous Bloody and Jesuitical Maximes of Mariana Suarez Sa Bellarmine which all good people abhorred Adding that those very persons that instructed the poor populary to quarrel with their Sovereign about Liberty should as it followed afterwards lay a more unsupportable slavery upon them than their most impious slanders could form in the imagination of the Credulous that they might fear from the King The power God had invested him with he intreated the King to own and the ways the Laws of God and the Land allowed him to maintain that power to make use of employing all the able men that pretended to skill either in Law or Government to see if Prerogative had any way yet left to save an unwilling People for knowing how prevailing the Seditious were always to disturb the Counsels of the Parliament he feared that from their proceedings the common Enemies would be encouraged as formerly to higher Insolencies and the envious Demagogues would contemn their own safety to ruine the Kings Honor therefore giving vigorous Orders for raising the Ship-money and a great Example towards Advancing a Benevolence subscribing himself 20000 l. and procuring the Subscription of 500000 l. from the Church the Court the City and Countrey besides some thousands by Compositions with Papists especially in Stafford-shire Lancashire York-shire c. and by Forfeitures observed by him in London Derry and other places held by Patent from His Majesty When he saw a Faction by the diligence of the Kings enemies and the Security and Treason of his pretended Friends who made it their business to perswade His Majesty that there was no danger so long until there was no safety formed into Councels and drawn up into Armies when he saw one Kingdom acting in open Rebellion and another countenancing and inclining to it when he discovered a Correspondence between the Conclave of Rome and the Cardinal of France between the King of France and the Rebels of Scotland between the Leaders of the Scottish Sedition and the Agents of the English Faction one Pickering Laurence Hampden Fines c. being observed then to pass to and fro between the English and the Scottish Brethren and saw Letters signed with the Names though as some of them alledged since without the consent of the Five Members c. when the Government in Church and State was altered the Kings Ships Magazines Revenue Forts and faithful Servants were seized on the Orders of State and Worship of God were affronted by a barbarous multitude that with sticks stools and such other instruments of Fury as were present disturbed all religious and civil Conventions and the Kings Agents Hamilton Traquair and Roxborough pleased no doubt with the Commotions they at first raised and by new though secret seed of Discontents improved increased the Tumults by a faint Opposition which they might have allayed by vigorous punishments all the Declarations that were drawn in the Kings Name being contrived so as to overthrow his Affairs In a word when he saw that the Traytors were got into the Kings Bed-chamber Cabinets Pockets and Bosom and by false representation of things had got time to consolidate their Conspiracy and that the Kings Concessions to their bold Petition about the Liturgy the High-Commission the Book of Canons and the â—ive
would bear the charge of his Suit with his Adversary which being over-heard by the Noble-man he sent presently to the Brewer resolving he would no longer go to Law with him who upon such easie and cheap terms could manage his part of the Suit And when some ill-minded people thought to disturb the peace of his soul by the confluence that attended his Neighbour's Ministry and the solitude of his he would at once please himself and displease them with this Repartee That to one Customer you will see in a substantial Whole-saleman's Ware-house you will meet with twenty in a pedling Retailer of Small-wares Shop A man would wonder how so good a nature could have an enemy but that as Culpitius Severus noteth of Ithacius that he so hated Priscillian that the very Habit which good men used if it were such as Priscillian had used made him hate them also so it was observed in those times that any thing that was Episcopal was so odious that some men whose Callings were much indeared by the excellent endowments of their persons had yet their persons much disrespected by the common prejudices against their Callings Ah shall I be so happy as to be taken away from the evil to come They are his dying words as Augustine before the taking of Hippopareus before the Siege of Heidelbergh and the good Christians before the Siege of Ierusalem Shall I go as old Gryneus said ubi Lutherus cum Zwinglio optime jam convenit If they knew what it was to dye they would not live so When Bees Swarm a little dust thrown in the Air setleth them and when People are out of order a little thought of their mortality would compose them And since they are mortal their hatred would not be immortal O set bounds to our zeal by discretion to tumults by law to errours by truth to passion by reason and to divisions by charity And so this good man went up to that place that is made up of his Temper Mirth and peace For all we know of what is done above By blessed Souls is that they Sing and Love THE Life and Death OF Sir ROBERT BERKLEY THE two great Boundaries that stood in the way of the late Sedition were Religion and Law which guide and regulate the main Springs that move and govern the affections of reclaimed nature Conscience and Fear by the first of which we are obliged as we live in the communion of those that hope for another world And by the second as we live in society with those that keep in order this Ministers and Lawyers are the Oracles we depend upon for Counsel and Instruction in both those Grand Concerns so far as that we think it our duty to submit to the reason of the one and to believe the doctrine of the other without scruple or argument unless in matters most notoriously repugnant to the Elements of Policy and Religion These two professions the Conspiracy endeavoured to make sure of either by cajoling or persecuting drawing the one half of them to sin with them oh what a case the Nation was in when Juglers and Impostors took up its Benches and Pulpits and marking out the other half for persecution by them miserable kingdom where the Law is Treason and Gospel a Misdemeanor One of those that could better endure the Injuries than the Ways of the Faction was Sir Robert Berkley a person whose worth was set in his Pedigree as a rich diamond in a fair Ring his extraction not so much honouring his parts as his parts did illustrate his extraction When a Pippin is planted on a Pippin-stock there groweth a delicious fruit upon it called a Renate When eminent abilities meet with an eminent person the product of that happy concurrence is noble and generous The Heveninghams of Suffolk reckon twenty five Knights of their Family the Tilneys of Norfolk are not a little famous for sixteen Knights successively in that House and the Nauntons have made a great noise in history seven hundred pounds a year they have injoyed ever since or even before the Conquest And this person took a great pleasure in reflecting on the eight Lords forty two Knights besides a great number of Gentlemen that amongst them possess nine thousand pounds a year for five hundred years together When he came to Study the Law he knew that though to have an Estate be a sure First yet to have Learning is a sure Second skill being no burthen to the greatest men that being often in his mouth in effect which I find in another Judges Book in express terms Haec studia adolescentiam alunt senectutem oblectunt secundas res ornant adversis persugium praebent delectant domi non impediunt foris pernoctant nobiscum Peregrinantur Rusticantur He observed it a great happiness that he fixed on a profession that was as Aristotle saith among the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 suited to his genius and inclination The reason of his considerable proficiency in his Profession being judged the greatest Master of Maximes in his time and therefore his only fault was that being made Serjeant 3. Caroli with great Solemnity and at the same Term sworn the King's Majesties Serjeant at Law he argued against the factious Members of the Parliament 4. Caroli Sir Iohn Aliot c. so shrewdly that Sir G. C. said of him Prerogative and Law will not be over-run while Serjeant Berkley lives A testimony of him suitable to the inscription on his ring when made Serjeant Lege Deus Rex Two things he abhorred 1. The impudence of those men that by misconstruction of Laws misapplying of Presidents torturing or embezzeling of Records turn the point of the Law upon its self Wounding the Eagle with a feather from his own wing and overthrowing the power of Princes by their authority 2. The uncharitableness of others void of the ingenuity either of Scholars or indeed of men who charged him and others with opinions which they heartily disclaimed meerly because they think such an opinion flowed from his Principles an uncharitableness that hath widened the breach irreconcilably among both Lawyers and Divines in this Nation This was the reason why when the other Judges were Charged with Misdeamenors when the Parliament was upon the business of Ship-money this Judge was Accused of Treason and why when his fellows got off with a check and a small Fine he suffered three years Imprisonment and afterwards was released upon no lower terms than a Fine of two thousand pounds an incapacity of any Dignity or Office in the Common◠wealth and to be a Prisoner at large during pleasure After having been eleven years a good Justice in the Kings bench he died heart-broken with grief Anno 1649. Aetatis 63. Hard indeed were this Gentleman's Arguments against the times but soft his words often relating and its seems always reflecting on Mnemon's discipline who hearing a mercenary Souldier with many bold and impure reports exclaiming against Alexander lent
us up then the Lord took him up not immediately Miracles being ceased but in and by the hands 1. Of Generous and Noble Guardians that much improved his Estate as well as himself 2. Of two Excellent School-Masters and Tutors in Memory of whom he kept his own Birth-day as the Athenians did that of Theseus doing alwayes some thing in Memory of his Teachers as they sacrificed a Ramme in Memory of his having designed we know not whether performed the endowment of a School where because 1. Raw Youths took Sanctuary in this Profession furnished only with a Rod and a Serida 2. Hopeful men slur it over in their way to a more profitable Employment 3. Indiscreet men meddle with this that understand Books but not Tempers well 4. Men undertake it against their Genius neither with delight nor dexterity who had as lieve be School-boys as School-Masters being ticed to the School as Coopers Dictionary or Scapulaes Lexicon is chained to the Desk or if good School-Masters they grow Rich and neglect it or if poor they are Masters to the Children and slaves to their Parents He intended an able discreet grave and dexterous man should be competently incouraged while he was able and provided for when not able to follow the School at the place either where he was born or which he valued more at the place where he was bred He would bless God that he had staid so long at the Gate of Wisdom supported like Wisdoms House in the Scripture by seven Pillars meaning the seven Liberal Sciences before he entred the Temple of it meaning the Profession of the Law That he might not be reckoned among those Sir Iohn Dodderidge calleth Doctum quoddam Indoctorum hominum genus natural abilities have gone far but Ingenious Education goeth further to understand our Law of which Sir Henry Finch observeth That the sparks of all other Sciences in the world are raked up under the ashes of the Law Which when admitted at the Temple he plied with 1. Reading 2. Hearing 3. Conference 4. Meditation 5. Recollection and 6. A good Common-place of Axioms Principles Rules and Aphorisms Apes debemus Imitori quae ut vagantur flores ad mel faciendum Idoneum Idoneos corpunt deinde quicquid attulere disponunt ac per favos digerunt Ita debemus quaecunque ex diversa Lectione congestimus separare melius enim distinct a servantur Sen. Epist. untill his Country-man Sir Randolph Crew and the great observer of Young men took special notice of him And likewise adorned with a grave Aspect vultu non destruens verba not contradicting that to the subtile eyes of those that dwell on Faces and from the workings of the Countenance discern the Intrigues of the minde which he spake to the Judicious Ear A sober and patient temper a reserved minde Modestus Incestus compositus ac probus vultus conveniens prudenti viro gestus And what was more practised with so much success and integrity that he had insinuated himself into the best acquaintance and most profitable practises of his time having been Steward to sixteen several Persons of Quality Executor to above three hundred Wills Feoffee in trust for fifty several considerable Estates Guardian to forty three several Orphans twice Reader of Grayes-Inn called to be Sergeant Term Mich. Anno 21. Iacobi Regis made Judge of the Common-Pleas 5. Caroli 1. upon Sir Henry Yelvertons Death and 7. Caroli 1. was preferred Chief Baron of the Exchequer in the place of Sir Iohn Walter then discharged 5. Car. and dead 8. Novemb. 6. Car. in the right though not in the exercise of which place he died 164 ... Receiving the Absolution and Communion when sick according to the Common-Prayer and ordering his burial when dead so too as did Judge Hutton Baron Denham Sir Iohn Brampston and all the Eminent Lawyers of that time by particular Clauses in their Wills being observed many of them to have wept their Common-Prayers left behinde in their Closets into bluts and blots all over A Monument for the Iudges that suffered about Ship-money P. M. S. Uno sub Monumento claudantur unanimes reliquiae quibus olim una anima unicus Calculus Quos conjunxit ostracismus nec dividat Epitaphium Erudite pertinax Trevor Mansuete magnanimus Davenport prudentissimo patiens Westonus tria Legum Anglicanarum Oracula Quibus regi pio servire summa videbatur Libertas ruente Regno cecidere-Divinae legis tam devote observantes quam tantos Patriae exacte callidi Ne tantos viros longa temporum Injuriâ vel Sacrilegiâ sequioris saeculi Incuria oblivioni traditos Perpetuae Vel fuisse Laboraret Annalium fides sacram saltem eorum memoriam in Epitaphio superstitem voluit D. W. Onely let us add to Sir Humphrey Davenport a relation of his we suppose thus dealt with Will. Davenport of Boom-hall Chester Esq compounded for 0745 l. THE Life and Death OF Sir GEORGE RATCLIFFE THIS Gentleman might say as one of the fore-going Judges did That he had been a very happy man had it not been for that he was born in that age wherein it was fatal to give good counsel He was Born Anno 1587. at ... in York-shire most of his relation taking to the Sword that gives laws whereof 3. slain at Museleburgh-field 2. died in the suppression of the Northern Rebellion 63 in 88. and 2. whereof that excellent person Sir Iohn Ratcliffe who when with Sir Charles Rich being sick and desired by the Duke of Buckingham to retire into the Ships returned No they came to fight and leaning on their Pikes challenged death its self at the Isle of Rhee He was bred to the Laws that were made by the Sword so earnest was he in the behalf of those laws when there was a suspicion that they should be made void by an Arbitrary power and Prerogative that I find Sir Thomas Wentworth removed from York-shire to Essex and Sir George Ratcliffe to Hertford-shire to be confined for stickling in the Parliaments Anno 1625 1626. and yet so zealous he was for the Kings Prerogative and just Power when it was in a real hazard to be over-born with tumults and combinations in the behalf of pretended Laws that I find Sir George Ratcliffe involved in all the Earl of Straffords troubles None will question his worth that considereth him as the great Consident of that Earl in his affairs and all persons must needs confess his faithfulness that observeth him that excellent persons companion in all his sufferings The Lord Viscount Wentworth understood men and therefore when he was advanced President in the North he made him Atturney General at York and he was so sensible of serviceableness there that when he was called to the Leiutenancy of Ireland he carried him as his chief favourite over thither Where his contrivance was so good that Cardinal Mazarine gave 10000. Pistols for a Copy of a model pretended to be Sir George Ratcliffes Intituled A model for
Affairs they considering the streight he was reduced into resolved that they would redress Grievances before they would yield any Subsidies To that purpose they make bold to question his greatest and dearest Favourites and States-men and first the Duke of Buckingham against whom they set the Earl of Bristol and when he could make nothing of it the House of Commons its self with thirteen Articles attaqued that great Person who had no fault as it seems by his Replies but his great Place and his Princes Favour that Party designing thereby to make it dangerous for any person to give the King faithful Counsel or to assist him in keeping up the Government unless in compliance with them as they made it more than evident when they offered the Duke with their Interest upon some Conditions to bring him off Here is the first blow at the greatest stay of Government the Kings Majesty's Council The next thing they do notwithstanding the great danger of the Kingdom is to declare That they must clear the Liberty and Propriety of the Subject that forsooth they are the Demagogâ—es own words they might know whether they could call any thing their own before they should give the King any thing And when Nature Policy and Religion taught the World that his Majesty who had the Care of the Kingdom must not let it perish for the humour of some people that would allow nothing towards the maintenaâ—ce either of themselves or it choosing as one Turner said openly in the House Rather to fall into the hands of Enemies abroad than to submit to the Government as then established at home And some Divines preached what is great reason That his Majesty being Intrusted by God with a Power to defend his Kingdom must have a power too by all means to raise Men and Money in spight of any malicious Factions wherewith he may defend it For this Dr. Mainwaring and Dr. Sibthorpe both as I take it his Majesties Chaplains are questioned not by the Church to whose Cognizance Errours in Doctrines most properly belong but by the Lay-Elders of the House of Commons Yea and if the Farmers of the Custom-house advance any money upon the Kings ancient Revenue of Tonnage and Poundage they shall be questioned for that and for Levying any Imposts upon any Commodities whatsoever That 's the second Blow at his Majesties Prerogative and Revenue wherein I may include the noise they made against Coat and Conduct-money and Free-quarter Having weakned the Civil Power by these Courses they thought it easie to overthrow the Ecclesiastical for the Faction grown bold and considerable by the remisness of a great Prelate and the discontent of others question all Proceedings in Ecclesiastical Courts open a door to several vexatious Suits against several Officers of that Court besides that they questioned Mr. Mountague Mr. Cozens and threatned Bishop Laud Bishop Neile and others that were resolved to stand by the Supream Power of the King in Ecclesiastical Affairs against which they levelled their third Blow And when all this would not do they examine the whole Government for divers years together the disbursment of the Revenue the administrations of War and Peace They rake into Prince Henry and King Iames his death and this with such a deal of stir and tumult that some of them lock the Parliament Doors others make such a noise as rings all over Westminster others force the Speaker Sir Iohn Finch and hold him whether he would or no in the Chair when he would have left the House when it was become rather a Billingsgate Conventicle than an House of Parliament When the turbulent House of Commons was dissolved and the Faction having got a new Maxime That they might say and do what they pleased within the Walls of that House as publick persons whereof they were to give no account as private men lost the benefit of it by that Dissolution the King resolving that they should not make the Parliament a Conspiracy they fall to Libelling Printing popular Insinuations Evasions and Elusions of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Laws that tended to the securing of the Government secret and open Oppositions to all the ways the King took to raise money though never so legally the just King always consulting his Judges about the Legality of all Taxes before he ordered his Officers to gather them For the first Question in that Kings Reign was Is it just And the next Is it convenient And those men that have imposed Millions on others since grudged to pay then twenty shillings for it was but twenty shillings Ship-money that Mr. Hampden went to Law with the King for and my Lord Say but for four pounds And that five pounds was the occasion of all the stir afterwards made about the Ship-money which cost the Nation fifty seven Millions Sterling since The untoward Reading in the Innes of Court upon Points most dangerous to Government possessing the People with strange Fears and Jealousies about Religion German Horse a French and Arbitrary Government and what not Every publick Action of the King or his Ministers being mis-interpreted Combinations were held between the factious English and discontented Scots whose begging-time being over at Court they bethink of coming to Plunder the Country The Faction gives out that the King had deserted the Protestants of the Palatinate and France when the truth is they had deserted him The Bishops in their Visitations were every where opposed and the Troublesom taught how to elude all Church-Obligations by Common Law In a word notwithstanding that the Kingdom injoyed for the first fifteen years of the excellent King Charles I. his Reign Trade flourished and Gold and Silver in his time was almost as plentiful as in Solomons Learning and all Arts were improved to the heighth and Scholars Encouragements were as great as their Improvements Religion grew up to its primitive Beauty and Purity Law and Justice secured all persons in their just Acquisitions The People had liberty to do any thing by evil the Rich durst not wrong the Poor neither need the Poor envy or fear the Rich. The Treasure of Spain was coined in our Mint and exchanged for our Commodities forreign Nations either feared our Arms or sought our Friendship We claimed and enjoyed the Dominion of the Sea Wars Plagues and Famines were strangers to our Coasts and we were even against our will the happiest People under Heaven except onely for this that we were not sensible either of our Happiness or of the use of it understanding it seems no more improvement of the great blessing of Peace and good Government than wantonness and unthankfulness Notwithstanding fifteen years of the most blessed effects of Justice Wisdom Piety and Peaceableness of an excellent Prince of whom the World was not worthy By the practices of Cardinal Richlieu and others who envied and feared our happiness by the Indigence and Schism of the Scots by the comprehensive Combination in England that had taken in with the
before peoples eyes to move or exasperate them the dead and pardoned are forgotten My Lord had vast Affections for the Protestant Interest as appeared by his Proposals in Councel his wishes rather than his hopes and what he would rather then what he could do yet he suspected the Swedes and Scots Assistants as rather an Army of Mercenaries than the Auxiliaries of Friends Two things he said undid us 1. That our Divines had been so careless in opening the ground of Religion that Novelties had got such advantages over ancient Truths as to charge primitive Practices for Innovations 2. That our Lawyers were so byassed in their explications of the ground of the Law that old Laws such as those of Knighthood whereby the Subjects holding of the King as all do originally were either to be Knighted or fined for it and that for Ship-money shall be cried down for new Exactions My Lord applauded his Majesties generous Goodness in stopping the Combate between the Witnesses about Hamiltons Design to entertain all the Scots abroad to serve him against his Prince at home but he feared his easiness afterwards in trusting him He like H. 7. being at once what few men are most suspicious most knowing and most stout whereas usually the suspicious man is one that knows little and fears much Much did he resent the Differences between Protestants and Protestants and more with Bishop Bancroft encouraged he the Dissentions between the Seculars and Jesuits as he did in Civil Matters between some Scots and English advising that the Press might be open to them to discover the nakedness of their Parties and shut to our Disputants the Sabbatarians and Anti-Sabbatarians the Arminians and Anti-Arminians lest we betray our own Opinions it was his Maxime For Schools positive and practical Divinity onely for Presses and Pulpits A Maxime of as great concernment to the Church as his Contributions for Pauls which to say no more were worthy the Earl of Strafford and Bishop Laud's friend From being a Member of the Councel in the South he was advanced Lord President of the North and thence a while after Lord Deputy of Ireland In the North begun that Animosity between him and Vane about Raby that was not allayed but with his bloud Here he would have strengthned the Law by Prerogative always making good the Prerogative by Law some there complained to him of the Kings Government and he told them They complained of the Laws adding That the little Finger of the Law if not moderated by the Kings Clemency would be heavier than the Kings Loyns He endeavoured to indear his Majesties Government to his best Subjects and render it dreadful to the worst Parts and Merits imployed against the Government by mistake he informed and encouraged to better Imployment but Parts and Merits poysoned by Pride and Ambition he suppressed and sleighted saying He loved not a man of large Parts and a narrow and selfish Spirit He had Worth that was sure to raise Envy and a Prudence to allay it moderating the power he had himself and maintaining that of other Magistrates who might be his Skreen Who as he ingrossed not Business to exercise his Power so he intangled it not to raise a suspicion of his Cunning carrying things on in a plain and open rather than a private and close way not that he feared the effects of Envy on himself calling Envy a Shadow that reflâ—cted 〈…〉 prejudice it and as shadows did more 〈…〉 falls upon than to those stately things it 〈…〉 judging it his Monitor rather than his Danger Son 〈…〉 in the wary Conduct of his Affairs rather thâ—n 〈…〉 avoided them in the smooth course of his 〈◊〉 which wâ—nt above the hazard but not the interruptions of Envy The first Institution of the Presidents Place in the North was to suppress Rebellions and my Lords first caâ—e in â—â—at Place was 〈◊〉 prevent them How carefully did he look out 〈…〉 wise Clergy-men that might instruct and guide how 〈◊〉 did he choose knowing and noble Gentlemen that might govern and 〈◊〉 that rude Corner of the Kingdom equally obnoxious to the 〈◊〉 â—â—ations of the old Superstition that erept thither 〈…〉 the Seas and of the late Innovations that stole in 〈◊〉 from beyond the Tweed both dangerous to the People and 〈…〉 Government Instruction he would say must 〈◊〉 wa◠〈◊〉 Government and Government back Instruction by the 〈…〉 the hearts of men and by the second it â—yes their 〈…〉 the King trusted in his own Person the Eaâ—l 〈…〉 Nobility Gentry and Clergy of the North at onceâ— to 〈◊〉 and secure himself rendring hâ—s Authority plâ—â—â—sible by administring Government to the People by those 〈◊〉 that had most Interest in them and could best awe because they alwayes obliged them admitting many to his assistance and 〈◊〉 to â—is trust His Observations upon the Humors of the â—â—â—â—hern People prompted him to advise his Majesty to a Progress 〈◊〉 â—cotland Anno 1633. to encourage the Loyal Part of that 〈◊〉 on this side the Tweed by his Presence to settle the disloyal 〈…〉 other side by his Laws he having Intelligence from Scoâ—â—â—â—â— tâ—ey are the words of a great Lord then trusted with the Crown of that Kingdom that if the King should long deferr his Coronation the Scots might perhaps incline to make choice of another King This â—rogress by taking in the most popular and great Noble-men of the North to attend His Majesty he managed with a noble Conduct advancing all along the Kings Majesties Interest and Honor of such mighty consequence it is how a Prince appears to his people When he had composed the Affairs of Scotland some defects appearing by dayly Tumults and Commotions in the Government of Ireland this accomplished Person in the Affairs of Rule discovering dayly greater and greater Abilities equal to a Minister of State after he had brought my Lord of Holland to a Submission at the Council-Table and in some measure reduced the Factions that broke out dayly at Court where to use his dear Friend Archbishop Land's words Private Ends appeared every day more and more â—o the prejudice of the publike Service was intreated to the Supream Care under His Majesty of that Kingdom a Trust he managed so well That 1. he discharged Fourscore thousand Pounds the King owed and raised Twenty thousand men and as many thousand Pounds that the King wanted in the year 1634. 2. Reduced the Popish and Protestant Parties to so even a temper that upon some Disorders that year he was able to summon such a Parliament as was able to allay and fix the several Factions to a due temperament guiding the zeal of each Party by such Rules of Moderation as were ever observed most effectual to preserve and restore the health of all States and Kingdoms 3. Prevailed with the Church of Ireland to admit of the 39 Articles of the Church of England that as he would say They that agreed for the main in the truth of
a Member of the House whereupon Sir William wept Secondly That he should say at the Castle of Dublin that Ireland was a Conquered Nation and that the King might do with them what he pleased and speaking of the Charters of that City averred that their Charters were nothing worth and did bind the King no further than he pleased The Earles Reply That if he had been over liberal of his Tongue for want of discretion yet could not his words amount to Treason unless they had been revealed within fourteen dayes as he was informed As to the Charge he said True it is he said Ireland was a Conquered Nation which no man can deny and that the King is the Law-giver in matters not determined by Acts of Parliament be conceived all Loyal Subjects would grant 3. That R. Earl of Cork having sued out a Process in Course of Law for Recovery of possessions out of which he was put by an order of the Earl of Strafford and the Council of Ireland the said Earl threatned to Imprison him if he did not surcease his suit saying That he would have neither Law nor Lawyers dispute or question any of his Orders And when the said Earl of Cork said that an Act of King Iames his Council there about a Lease of his was of no force the Earl of Strafford replyed That he would make the said Earl know and all Ireland too so long as he had the Government there that any Act of State there should be obeyed as well as an Act of Parliament The Earles Reply It were hard measure for a Man to loose his Honour and his Life for an hasty word or because he is no wiser than God hath made him As for the words he confessed them to be true and thought he said no more then what became him considering how much his Majesties honour was concerned in him that if a proportionable obedience was not as well due to Acts of State as to Acts of Parliament in vain did Councils sit And that he had done no more than what former Deputies had done and than what was agreeable to his Instructions from the Council-Table which he produced and that if those words were Treason they should have been revealed within fourteen days 4. That the said Earl of Strafford 12 Decemb. 1635. in time of peace sentenced the Lord Mount-Norris a Peer Vice-Treasurer Receiver-General Principal Secretary of State and Keeper of the Privy Signet in Ireland and another to death by a Councel of War without Law or offence deserving such punishment The Earles Reply That there was then a standing Army in Ireland and Armies cannot be governed but by Martial Law That it hath been put in constant practice with former Deputies That had the sentence been unjustly given by him the Crime could amount but to Felony at most for which he hoped he might as well expect from his Majesty as the Lord Conway and Sir Jacob Astley had for doing the like in the late Northern Army That he neither gave sentence nor procured it against the Lord Mount-Norris but onely desired Iustice against the Lord for some affront done to him as he was Lord Deputy of Ireland That the said Lord was judged by a Council of War wherein he sate bare all the time and gave no suffrage against him that also to evidence himself a party he caused his Brother Sir George Wentworth in regard of the nearness of Blood to decline all acting in the Procejs Lastly Though the Lord Mount-Norris justly deserved to die yet he obtained his Pardon from the King 5. That he had upon a Paper-Petition of R. Rolstone without any legal Tryal disseized the Lord Mount-Norris of a Free-hold whereof he was two years in quiet possession The Earles Reply That he conceived the Lord Mount-Norris was legally divested of his Possessions there being a suit long depending in Chancery and the Plaintiff complaining of delay he upon the Complainants Petition called unto him the Master of the Rolls Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Iustice of the Common-Pleas and upon â— roofs in Chancery Deâ—reed for the Plaintiff wherein he said he did no more then what other Deputies had done before him 6. That a Case of Tenures upon defective Titles was by him put to the Judges of Ireland and upon their opinion the Lord Dillon and others were dispossessed of their Inheritances The Earles Reply That the Lord Dillon with others producing his Patent according to a Proclamation in the behalf of his Majesty the said Patent was questionable upon which a Case was drawn and argued by Council and the Iudges delivered their Opinions But the Lord Dillon or any other was not bound thereby nor put out of their Possessions but might have Traverst their Office or otherwise have Legally proceeded notwithstanding the said Opinion 8. That he October 1635. upon Thomas â—Hibbots Petition to the Council voted against the Lady Hibbots though the major part of the Council were for her and threatned her with 500l Fine and Imprisonment if she disobeyed the Council-Order entred against her the Land being conveyed to Sir Robert Meredith for his use The Earls Reply That true it is he had voted against the Lady Hibbots and thought he had reason so to do the said Lady being discovered by fraud and Circumvention to have bargained for Lands of a great value for a small Sum. And he denied that the said Lands were after sold to his use viz. That the major part of the Council-board voted for the Lady the contrary appearing by the Sentence under the hand of the Clerk of the Councâ—l which being true he might well threaten her with Commitment in case she disobeyed the said Order Lastly Were it true that he were Criminal therein yet were the Offence but a Misdemeanor no Treason 9. That he granted Warrants to the Bishop of Down and Connor and other Bishops their Chancellors and several Officers to Attach such mean people who after citation refused either to appear or undergo or perform such Orders as were enjoyned The Earles Reply That such Writs had been usually granted by former Deputies to Bishops in Ireland nevertheless being not fully satisfyed with the convenience thereof he was sparing in granting them until being informed that divers in the Diocesse of Down were somewhat refractory he granted Warrants to that Bishop and hearing of some disorders in the execution he called them in again 10. That he having Farmed the Customes of Imported and exported merchandise Inhanced the prices of the Native commodities of Ireland and caused them to be rated in the Book of Rates for the Customes according to which the Customes were gathered five times more than they were worth The Earles Reply That his interest in the Customes of Ireland accrewed to him by the Assignation of a Lease from the Dutchess of Buckingham That the Book of Rates by which the Customes were gathered was the same which was established by the Lord Deputy Faulkland Anno. 1628. some
this Lord Digby and Dunsmore look for the Captainship of the Pensioners Hertford once looked after it but now I believe he expects either to be Treasurer or of my Bed-chamber I incline rather to the later if thou like it for I absolutely hold Cottington the fittest man for the other And in a third as a wise States-man that was not to be abused with umbrages When the Rebellion seized on other mens Estates it looked for a greater Treasure with my Lord Cottington's A B C and Sir F. W. taking all their Papers Indeed this Lord sent such a Reply to some harangues of the House of Commons against him as could not be Answered but by suppressing both their Charge and his Answer an essay of the Spartanes valour who being struck down with a mortal blow used to stop their mouths with earth that they might not be heard to quetch or groan thereby to affright their fellows or animate their enemies And to prepare the way for his ruin the most opprobrious parts of his accusation were first whispered among the populacy That by this seeming suppression men impatient of secrecy might more eagerly divulge them the danger appear greater by an affected silence Besides the calumnies and the suspitions were so contrived as might force him and others to some course in their own defence which they hitherto forbore and by securing themselves to increase the publick fears For the slanders fixed upon the King's Party were designed rather to provoke than to amend them that being provoked they might think rather to provide for their security than to adjust their actions in a time when the most innocent man living was not safe if either wise or honest Indeed he sate among the Faction at Westminster so long as he had any hope of keeping them within any reasonable terms of moderation untill he and others saw that their longer continuance amongst them might countenance their confederacy but neither prevent nor so much as allay their practises And therefore among many eminent examples of loyalty and virtue of the noblest extracts and fairest estates in England of which they could not easily suspect to be divested without an absolute overthrow of all the Laws of right and wrong which was to be feared only by their Invasion on the Kings most undoubted Rights for when Majesty it self is assaulted there can be no security for private fortunes and those that decline upon design from the paths of equity will never rest till they come to the extremity of injustice We find him with the King at York where the King declareth that he will not require any obedience from them but by the Law of the Land That he will Protect them from any illegal Impositions in the profession of the true Protestant Religion the just Liberty of the Subject and the undoubted Priviledge of the three Estates of Parliament That he will not Engage them in any War except for necessary defence against such as invade him on them And he with others subscribing a Protestation to live and dye with the King according to their Allegiance in defence of Religion and Laws together with the prosperity and peace of the kingdom But this Resolution without treasure would not take effect and therefore the Nobility Gentry Clergy and both Universities furnished his Majesty with treasure chusing rather to lay out then estates for the supply of his Majesty than expose them to the lusts and usurpations of a Conspiracy And yet treasure without a Treasurer could not at that time be either preserved or managed and my Lord Cottington had been so good a husband for himself that he was looked on in a time when his Majesties occasions were so craving and suppy so uncertain as the fittest Steward for his Soveraign Being so rich that he would not abuse his Majesty himself and so knowing that he would not suffer others to do it The Souldiery would have their flings at him for being so close in his advises and wary in his place at Oxford But he understood that in vain do the Brows beat and frown the Eyes sparkle the Tongue rant the Fist bend and the Arm swing except care be taken that the Belly be fed But when it pleased God that the best Cause had the worst success and his Sacred Majesty more solicitous for his friends safety than his own chusing to venture himself upon further hazzards rather than expose their resolute Loyalty to all extremities directed his followers to make as good terms of peace as they could since it was in vain to linger out the war This Lord among others whom when fortune failed their courage stood to had the contrivance first and afterwards the benefit of the Oxford Articles so far as the forfeiture of all his estate most part whereof came to Bradshaw's share perpetual Banishment but withal an opportunity to serve his Gracious Master in his old capacity of Ambassador to the Court of Spain in Joint Commission with Sir Edward Hyde since the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon and Lord High-Chancellor of England Two persons whose abilities and experience could have done more than they did had not interest been more with Princes than honour and present accommodations beyond future advantages Considerations that made it more adviseable for this ancient Lord Cum satis naturae satisque patriae gloriae vixisset to prepare himself rather to dye in peace with God than to concern himself in the affairs of men of which he said as it is reported when some English Mercuries were offered him that he would peruse and reflect on them when he could find some of the Rabbines hours which belonged neither to day nor night So much longed he for the grave where the weary are at rest and that world where all are at peace What point of time about 165â— he died in what particular manner he was buried what suitable Monument and Memory he hath hath not come to my knowledge and need not come to the Readers This Lord himself could not endure a discourse that ran into frivolous particulars And it is Lipsius his censure of Francis Guicciardines history Minutissima quaeque narrat parum ex lege aut dignitate historiae Thy want of Tomb's an Ep'taph thou wants a Grave Cottington with more glory than others have The Sun 's Rise and Fall 's no more Spain's hoast Since this Lord 's morn and night was within that Coast. THE Life and Death OF Sir IOHN BRAMSTON SIR Iohn Bramston Knight was born at Maldon in Essex bred up in the Middle Temple in the Study of the Common-law wherein he attained to such eminency that he was by King Charles made Lord Chief Justice of the Kings-bench One of Deep Learning Solid Judgement Integrity of Life Gravity of Behaviour above the Envy of his own Age and theâ— candal of Posterity One instance of his I must not forget writes the Historian effectually relating to the Foundation wherein I was bred Serjeant
Barons of the Exchequer in which place he was tender of two things the Churches and the Kings Rights having never as we heard taken Fee when a Pleader either of an Orthodox Minister or of a Kings Servant The first Books of the Law he would recommend to young Students was the Historical as the years and tearms of Common-law permitting Finch Dodderidge Fortescue Fulbeck and others that writ of the nature of the Law among which Books the Register is authentique Speculum Iustitiariorum is full and satisfactory Glanvill de Legibus consuetudinibus Regni Angliae is useful and practical the Old Tenures tried and approved Bracton methodical rational and compleat Britton learned and exact though his Law in some cases be obsolete and out of date Fleta deep and comprehensive Fortescue sinewy and curious Stuthams Abridgement well contrived and of ready use Littletons Tenures sound exact and the same thing to us Common Lawyers that Iustinians Institutes is to Civil Lawyers Littleton being deservedly said not to be the name of a Lawyer but of the Law it self Fitz-Herberts Abridgement and Natum brevium elaborate and well-digested Collections Doctor and Student A good account of the nature grounds and variety of Laws Stamfords Pleas of the Crown and Prerogative weighty smart and methodical Rastals Book of Entries and the Lord Brooks's Abridgement commended by my Lord Cook as good repertories of the year-books of the Law Theobalds Book of Writs sound and full the next explanatory Books were the next in which kind Cooks Works and Ploydens Commentaries pass for Oracles and Mr. Lambards Books for the most exquisite Antiquities and in the third place Reports among which those of Cook and Crook are profound fundamental and material those of Popham Hobart Owen Hutton Winch Lea Hetley Leonard Brownlow Bulstrode Yelverton Bridgeman are sinewy clear pertinent useful and approved and especially a man must have the Year-books and Statutes His Counsel to the King was with the like freedom as these directions to the young Gentlemen and his Judgment on the Bench with as much faithfulness as either The English in a year of great mortality amongst them had their children born without their cheek-teeth This Judge especially in sad times and in a sad case would have all Pleadings without biting his Nature was pitiful and ingenuous insomuch that he might be called as Tostanus was The Patron of Infirmities His Discourse was always charitable either to excuse their failings or mitigate their punishments The favour he shewed others he found not himself His concurring with his Brethren about Ship-money being aggravated with the most odious circumstances and punished with the severe usage of a Prison a Fine and the loosing of his Place a great argument certainly of his Integrity that in a searching Age he that had been Judge near upon twenty years could be found guilty of no fault but avowing the Law according to his Judgement and being of opinion That the King in case of danger whereof he was Iudge might tax the Nation to secure its self An opinion so innocent that Justice Hutton himself who went to his grave with the reputation of an honest Judge would protest he could heartily wish true it being as much for the Interest of the Nation as it seemed to him against the Law of it So legal that Baron Denham though he was sick and could not debate it with his Brethren and something scrupulous that if he had been there he could not have agreed with them yet it appears his dissent was not from his apprehension of the injustice of the Tax called Ship-money in general but from some particular irregularity in the proceeding with Mr. Hampden in particular as appears from this Certificate dated May 26. 1638. directed to the Lord Chief Justice Brampston May it please your Lordship I Had provided my self to have made a short Argument and to have delivered my Opinion with the Reasons but by reason of want of rest this last night my old Disease being upon me my sickness and weakness greatly increased insomuch as I cannot attend the business as I desire and if my opinion be desired it is for the Plaintiff Iohn Denham And this reason added to it That he thought His Majesty could not seize on any Subjects Goods without a Court-Record c. And so harmless that it was but twenty shillings that Hampden paid with all this ado after Monarchy and Liberty was brought to plead at the Bar. And Judge Crook himself who was one that dissented from his Brethrens opinions about Shipmoney though he had once subscribed it by the same token that the People would say at that time That Ship-money might be had by Hook it should never be had by Crook would say of Hampden That he was a dangerous man and that men had best take heed of him Remarkable here the difference between His Majesties temper and the Parliaments they punished five of the Judges for that very liberty of opinion which they themselves asserted under the notion of Liberty of Conscience that voted against their Sentiments severely The King entertained those two that voted against his Judgement and Interest too with respect the one dying with a Character from his Master of an upright man and the other being dismissed upon his own earnest Petition with the honour of having been a good Servant as is evident from this humble Petition of his to His Majesty To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty The humble Petition of Your Majesties humble Servant George Crook Knight one of the Iustices of Your Bench Humbly â—heweth THat he having by the Gracious Favour of Your Majesties late Father of blessed Memory and of Your Majesty served Your Majesty and your said late Father as a Judge of Your Majesties Court of Common-Pleas and of Yâ—ur Highness Court called the Kings-Bench above this sixteen years is now become very old being above the age of 80 years and by reason of his said age and dullness of hearing and other infirmities whereby it hath pleased God to visit him he findeth himself disabled any longer to do that Service in your Courts which the Place requireth and he desireth to perform yet is desirous to live and die in your Majesties Favour His most humble Suit is That your Majesty will be pleased to dispence with his further Attendance in any your Majesties Courts that so he may retire himself and expect Gods good pleasure And during that little remainder of his life pray for your Majesties long Life and happy Reign George Crook And this Gracious Answer of his Majesty to him The KINGS Answer UPon the humble Address by the humble Petition of Sir George Crook Knight who after many years Service done both to Our deceased Father and Our Self as Our said Fathers Serjeant at Law and one of His and Our Judges of Our Benches at Westminster hath humbly besought Us by reason of the Infirmity of his old Age which disableth him to continue
Conscience A Prince thus excellent in himself and choice in his Council made up of persons eminent for their services for or against him for parts and abilities he equally valued in his enemies and in his friends and when he saw hopefull and accomplish'd persons lavishing their worth upon a faction and a private interest if they were not of desperate principles he would encourage them to lay it out upon the government and the publick good A Prince that never suffered a subject to goe sad from him never denied his people but what they have seen since that they could not saefly enjoy That Prince who besides the great examples he gave them and the great intercessions and services he did for them begun his Reign with the highest Act of Grace that he could or any King did in the World I mean the granting of the Petition of Right wherein he secured his Peoples estates from Taxes that are not given in Parliament and their Lives Liberties and Estates from all Proceedings not agreeable to Law A King that permitted his chief favourite and Counsellor the D. of Buckingham whose greatest fault was his Majesties favour to satisfie the Kingdom both in Parliament and Star-chamber in the way of a publick Process And gave up Mainwaring and Sibthorpe both as I take it his Chaplains to answer for themselves in Parliament saying He that will preach more than he can prove Let him suffer Yea and was contented to hold some part of his Revenue as Tunnage Poundage c. which was derived to him from his Ancestors by Inheritance by gift from the Parliament A Prince that pardoned and preferred all his Enemies that though accountable to none but God gave yet a just account of himself and treasures to the People saving them in two years from ordinary expences 347264 l. 15s 6d and gaining them by making London the bank for Spanish Dutch and Danish treasures 445981 l. 2s 3d. that dashed most of the Projects that were proposed to him for raising money and punished the Projectors that designed no worse things in Religion than Uniformity Peace Decency Order the rights and maintenance of the Church and the honour of Churchmen and in the State no more than the necessary defence of the Kingdom from dangers abroad and disorders at home which he maintained several years at his own charge that by destroying several of the Dutch Herring Busses and forcing the rest with all Dutch Merchants to trade only by permission in the Narrow Seas opened a brave trade to the English Nation A King that took so much pains to oblige his Loving Subjects going twice in person as far as Scotland though against the inclination of most of his Counsellours who looked upon the Scotch Faction as a sort of people that under the pretence of a specious way of plain speaking and dealing concealed the greatest animosities and reaches and twice with an Army rather to pacifie than overthrow the Rebels treating with them as a Father of his Country when in all probability he might have ruined them if he had proceeded against them 1639. and 1640. as a King and not in imitation of the Divine Majesty wrapped up the dreadful power he carried then with him in gracious condescentions of mercy A King that of 346. Libellers seditious Writers discovered Conspirators against his Crown Dignity and Authority in Church and State put none to death and punished but five throughout his whole Reign A King in whose Reign there were such good Canons made that Judge Crooke a Dissenter about Ship-money blessed God when he read them that he lived to see such Canons made for the Church A King that publickly declared That he was rosolved to put himself freely upon the love and affections of his subjects One of the two Propositions he made the Parliament 1640. being to desire them to propose their grievances wherein he promised them to concurr so heartily and clearly with them that all the VVorld might see That his intentions ever have been and are to make this a glorious and flourishing Kingdom And to shew his good inclination to Religion married his eldest Daughter to an ordinary Protestant Prince And to the welfare of the Kingdom he tyed himself to a Triennial Parliament allowing this Parliament to sit as long as they thought fit and for a time to order the Militia entreating them to set down what they thought necessary for him to grant or them to enjoy vacating for their sake the Courts of Star-Chamber and High-Commissions the VVards the Forrests the Court on the Marches of Wales and the North Monopolies Ship-money his haereditary right to Tunnage and Poundage the Bishops Votes in Parliament and doing so much for peace that one asking Mr. Hampden a leading Card amongst them VVhat they would have him do more was answered That renouncing all his Authority he should cast himself wholly on the Parliament Yea as if this had not been enough A King that suffered all his Ministers of State to clear their innocency before publick Judicatures in the face of the World and though accountable only to him for their actions yet ready to appeal to their very accusers themselves for their Integrity And yet not so willing to remit his friends to Justice as his Enemies to favour if either they had hearkned to the re-iterated Proclamations of Pardon sent to them during the War or acquiesced in the Amnesty offered to and accepted by them after it an Amnesty that they might have securely trusted to when he bestowed upon them not only their lives but likewise for some years all the power over the Militia of the Kingdom to make good that pardon by which they held their lives neither had they only the Sword in their hands to defend but all places of trust authority and Judicature to secure and inrich themselves the King allowing them for so long a time not only to enjoy all their own places but to dispose of all others adding this favour too that they who grudged him a power to raise money to supply his occasions should have what power they pleased to raise money to satisfie their own demands and when he had confirmed the pardon of the Kingdom in general he offered the renovation of all Charters and Corporation Privileges in particular denying nothing that their ambition or covetousness could desire or his Conscience grant being willing to be no King himself that his people might be happy Subjects and to accept of a titular Kingdom on condition they had a peaceable one In Religion its self wherein he denyed most because he had less poweâ— to grant those points being not his own Prerogatives but those of the King of Kings he grants his Adversaries Liberty of Conscience for themselves and their followers on condition he might have the same liberty to himself and his followers desiring no more than to enjoy that freedom as a Soveraign that they claimed as Subjects Any thing he yielded they should
Imprisoned and Impeached for the peoples sake in spight of the peoples teeth both those that were at first against him being undeceived and those that were always for him indeed the whole Nations of England and Scotland venturing their lives to rescue the King when he was imprisoned in their name accused for shedding their bloud when they were killed by their fellow Subjects because they desired to save his A King that saw a Parliament accuse him of Breach of Priviledges when he came but to demand five men suspected for holding Intelligence with a Forraign Nation and yet the same Parliament suffer tamely its own Army to pull out by the ears more than half of the best Members that remained there for promoting the peace of their and Vote it the Priviledge of the Subjects to make tumults from all parts of the kingdom about Westminster to fright King and Bishops from the Parliament and a Breach of their Priviledge for the same people in throngs there from as many parts of the kingdom to Petition the return of the one and the other He from whom they extorted so much liberty in pretence for the Subject had neither liberty for himself being confined to hard Prisons and harder Limitations and Propositions nor for the Subjects who had they injoyed their own freedom had never endured his captivity He that could not deny the kingdom a Free-Parliament consisting of above an hundred Lords Spiritual and Temporal and five hundred Commons lived to see that very Parliament Exclude all its Lords and Reduce the five hundred Commons to thirty who in the name of the people when there was not one in five thousand of them but would have ventured his life against it threaten his life whom they had sworn when they entred that House to defend prepare to judge him who called them there to consult with them talk as if they would put a period to his days who gave them their being little dreaming that while they aimed at his Royal Neck they cut off their own for what is a Parliament called to advise with the King if there be no King to advise with He must be tried in whose name all others are tried by that Law himself hath made by those people that had sworn protested and covenanted with hands lift up to the most high God in publick and pawned their souls and all that they had privately to restore him whose only fault was that he went from that Parliament that murdered him when he returned to them Riddles Cromwell Whaley Ireton c. and the Army weep and grieve but the Hiena weeps when it intends to devour at the hard conditions the Houses put upon him and the Houses are displeased with the Armies hard usage of him and yet both ruin him the one bringing him to the Block and holding him there by the Hair of the Head and the other cutting off his Head The Scots durst not trust the Cavaliers with him nor the Houses the Scots nor the Army a King at lowest advanceth that party where he is though a prisoner the Houses nor the Juncto all the Army nor N. the Juncto being never safe till he put his finger into the Royal Neck to see after execution whether the head were really severed from the body All the quarrel was that the Cavaliers kept the King from the Parliament and the meaning of it it seems was That they kept him from the Block A Prince they destroyed that they durst not despise all the Grandees in the Army not daring to own the least murtherous thoughts towards him publickly when they set Agitators i. e. two active Souldiers out of every Regiment in the Army now modelled into such desparate Sects and Villanies to consult about the horrid Fact in private and to draw a bloudy Paper as the Agreement of the people which was but a conspiracy of Traitors Cromwell assuring the King as he had a soul that he should be restored And his Son Ireton at the same time Drawing up a Remonstrance that he should dye The Army treat him like a Prince and that they might deceive his devout soul the more securely allow him the service of his Chaplains and the Liberty of his Conscience the greatest injoyments left him in this world with a design the more successfully to use him like a Traitor Ah brave Prince that none durst have abused had they owned what they design whom the Houses had saved had they not been Cajoled by the Army and the Army had it not been Cajoled by the Houses The King granted too much saith Sir H. V. to him at the Isle of Wight and too little saith the same man to the Houses and the King must dye when whatsoever they asked they meant his life If the Tears Prayers Petitions Treasures or Bloud of the Nation if the intercession of forraign Princes if the importunity of all the good Relations that these Regicides had whereof one pressed hard on O. C. himself though without effect whence ever after he disowned his Relation and Name if the endeavours of Loyal souls to do that justice upon the Traitors that durst judge their King as one Burghill on Bradshaw as soon as he heard he was to be President who if not betrayed by his friend Cook had died the Villains robes in his own bloud before he could have done it in the Kings If the great Overtures of the Earls of Lindsey and Southampton the Duke of Richmond and the Marquiss of Hertford to ransom their Soveraign all ways imaginable even with their own bloud Offering that as they his Servants did all that was done under him so he as King being capable of doing no wrong they might suffer all for him If the horror that seized all Princes of the world Turkish and Heathenish as well as Christian upon the news of it with the hatred and scandal thence arising to the English Nation if the dissent of the Lords and all other persons of any quality that went along with them till now and had never suffered this to have happened the King but that by the just hand of God as bad had happened them that very Army that they imployed to turn his Majesty out of his just Power pulled them out of their usurped one If the Declarations of their own Judges if the strong Prayers and Sermons that could raise Armies against his Majesty indeavouring to advance the like for him if the Rational Pathetick and Powerful Remonstrances from all parts of the kingdom if the pressing of their own Oaths the scandal of Religion the ruin of the Nation if any Laws or Presidents had been of force to have prevented this Crimen post homines natos inauditum it had been only a Theory in some male-content Jesuits melancholy Chamber of Meditation and not the subject of this Book But stay Reader and take that Treason in the retail of it that thou art amazed at in the gross See a King having treated at the
The third particular is the poor Church of England It hath flourished and been a shelter to other Neighbor Churches when storms have driven upon them But alas now it is in a storm it self and God only knows whether or how it shall get out And which is worse than a storm from without it is become like an Oak cleft to shivers with wedges made out of its own body And at every cleft profanneness and irreligion is entring in While as Prosper speaks men that introduce profaneness are cloaked over with the Name Religionis Imaginariae of Imaginary Religion for we have lost the substance and dwell too much in Opinion And that Church which all the Jesuits machinations could not ruine is now fallen into danger by her own 4. The last particular for I am not willing to be too long is my self I was born and baptized in the bosom of the Church of England Established by Law in that Profession I have ever since lived and in that I come now to die What clamors and slanders I have endured for laboring to keep an Uniformity in the external service of God according to the Doctrine and Discipline of this Church all men know and I have abundantly felt Now at last I am accused of High-Treason in Parliament a Crime which my soul ever abhorred This Treason was Charged to consist of two parts an endeavor to subvert the Laws of the Land And a like endeavor to overthrow the true Protestant Religion Established by Law Besides my answers to the several Charges I protested mine innocency in both Houses It was said Prisoners protestations at the Bar must not be taken I must therefore come now to it upon my death being instantly to give God an account for the truth of it I do therefore here in the presence of God and his holy Angels take it upon my death that I never endeavored the subversion either of Law or Religion and I desire you all to remember this protest of mine for my innocency in this and from all Treasons whatsoever I have been accused likewise as an Enemy to Parliaments No I understand them and the benefit that comes by them too well to be so But I dislike the misgovernments of some Parliaments many ways and I had good reason for it for Corruptio optimi est pessima And that being the highest Court over which no other hath Jurisdiction when 't is misinformed or misgoverned the subject is left without all Remedy But I have done I forgive all the world all and every of those bitter Enemies which have persecuted me And humbly desire to be forgiven of God first and then of every man And so I heartily desire you to joyn in prayer with me His Graces Prayer upon the Scaffold O Eternal God and Merciful Father look down upon me in Mercy in the Riches and Fulness of thy Mercies Look upon me but not till thou hast nailed my Sins to the Cross of Christ but not till thou hast bathed me in the Blood of Christ not till I have hid my self in the Wounds of Christ that so the punishment due unto my sins may pass over me And since thou art pleased to try me to the uttermost I most humbly beseech thee give me now in this great instance full patience proportionable comfort and a heart ready to die for thine honor the Kings happiness and this Chuches preservation And my zeal to these far from arrogancy be it spoken is all the sin humane frailty excepted and all incidents thereto which is yet known to me in this particular for which I come now to suffer I say in this particular of Treason But otherwise my sins are many and great Lord pardon them all and those especially what ever they are which have drawn down this present Judgment upon me And when thou hast given me strength to bear it do with me as seems best in thine own eyes Amen And that there may be a stop of this issue of blood in this more than miserable Kingdom O Lord I beseech thee give grace of Repentance to all blood-thirsty people But if they will not repent O Lord confound their designs defeat and frustrate all their designs and endeavors which are or shall be contrary to the glory of thy great Name the truth and sincerity of Religion the establishment of the King and his Posterity after him in their just Rights and Priviledges the Honor and Conservation of Parliaments in their just Power the Preservation of this poor Church in her Truth Peace and Patrimony and the settlement of this distracted and distressed People under their ancient Laws and in their native Liberties And when thou hast done all this in meer mercy for them O Lord fill their hearts with thankfulness and with religious dutiful obedience to thee and thy Commandements all their days So Amen Lord Jesu Amen And receive my soul into thy bosom Amen Our Father which art in Heaven c. The Lord Arch-bishop's Prayer as he Kneeled by the Block LOrd I am coming as fast as I can I know I must pass through the shadow of death before I can come to see thee But it is but Vmbra Mortis a meer shadow of death a little darkness upon Nature but thou by thy Merits and Passion hast broke through the jaws of death So Lord receive my soul and have mercy upon me and bless this kingdom with plenty and with brotherly love and charity that there may not be this effusion of Christian blood amongst them for Jesus Christ his sake if it be thy will Many there was to see so able an Head struck off at one blow as it was upon these words of his spoken aloud Lord receive my Soul And more crouded to see so good a man buried at his own Church of Barking in London by the Common-prayer which was Voted down at the same time that he was Voted to dye in hope both of that resurrection which he hath had already with the Cause he dyed for being removed in Iuly 1663. from Barking in London to Saint Iohns Colledge in Oxford with his friend and successor in that Colledge the Deanery of the Chappel Bishoprick of London and Arch-bishoprick of Canterbury raised by him where he was Interred with these Monuments The first by Dr. M. Lluelin then Student of Christ-church An Elegy on the most Reverend Father in God William Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury Attached the 18. of December 1640. Beheaded the 10. of January 1644. Most Reverend Martyr THou since thy thick Afflictions first begun Mak'st Dioclesian's days all Calm and Sun And when thy Tragick Annals are compil'd Old Persecution shall be Pitty stil'd The Stake and Faggot shall be Temperate Names And Mercy wear the Character of Flames Men Knew not then Thrift in the Martyrs Breath Nor weav'd their Lives into a four years Death Few ancient Tyrants do our Stories Taxe That slew first by delays then by the Axe But these Tiberius like alone
private Education hardly raiseth Youths to that vigor freedom and generosity of spirit that a more publick doth where the Conversation goeth as far as the Instruction and the example of School-fellows beyond the Precepts of Schools-masters the one shewing what they ought to do the other what they may He professed he owed his Elocution and Pronunciation to one of his Fellow-Pupils gallant delivery of the Speeches of Ajâ—x and Vlysses in Ovid for Poetry and Cicero's Oration against Anthony for Prose His Memory to another artificial way of commanding Homers Iliads by heart the success of his Study to the common place and method of a third his invention to the growing fancy of a fourth that lay before him as the Ring-streaked Rods did before Iacobs Sheep or the Aethiopian before the Teeming-woman Richard Norshall saith Bale de Scriptor Brit. c. 7. n. 6. left behinde a Sett of Sermons for every day he was a Bishop and R. Manwaring had a sett of Exercises for every day he was a Scholar doing nothing himself and hearing nothing from others of remark but what he writ down being as Dr. Harris said of Dr. Preston a needless Ingrosser of other mens Notions for he said he had a good Memory if he did not trust it and when he lost a notion the careless man he said made the thief An habit of exactness in his smaller performances rendred him exact in those more considerable he being careful of two things the setling of his voice and his minde The modern Jews have among others a form of Prayer wherein they bless God as well as for their vents of Ejection as mouths for their admission of nourishment Mr. Manwaring though very studious to acquire Learing was more curious to express it knowing that small abilities well set off out-go greater that want that advantage The composing of four witty Verses recommended him to that Eminent School whereof he was Scholar the pronouncing of an ingenious and vigorous Oration gained him that noble Lord who thought it an honor sit to be remembred in an eminent part of the Parsonage-House he gave him to be his atron His Critical skill in Greek and rational Head preferred him Fellow of the Colledge and his discreet carriage and observing head Chaplain to his Lord in all which capacities his performances were not gaudy but proper becoming and always equal usually especially in Divinity managing his Exercises with a pleasing kinde of Magisterium Theologicum to use the old phrase of Matthew Paris Being so full that it was not with him as it was with some men the Platonick year of whose dicourses being not above three days long in which term all the same matter returns again He might be called Good-luck as his Name-sake R. Twiford was because however unhappy in himself yet he brought good success to others as two Worshipful Families can testifie whithersoever he went which made several Places and Persons ambitious at the same time of his presence and service good employments suing for him as earnestly as others had done for good employments though Locusts are generally devourers of all food yet some Locusts as those of St. Iohn are wholsom though course food themselves most troubles are losses yet this Gentlemans very losses were gains in that as he said they made him better acquainted with himself and better known to others Three things he was much resolved on the Redemption of Captives the Converting of Recusants and the undeceiving of the seduced Sectaries and three Dyaries he kept one for the Transactions of his own Life another for the publick Affairs of the Church and Kingdom and a third for the most remarkable passages of Providence that hapned in the world Many rich persons he effectually exhorted to good Works much Alms he industriously Collected his charitable Collections he carefully preserved and discrâ—etly disposed of not only for the relief of want but as he said of the Primitive Oblations to incourage virtue keeping a Discipline as he would say all charitable people should over the Poor who especially if beggars by reason of their wandring life are under none as moâ—â— is no predicament but may be reduced to any He profited much by his Books more by his Company which at the same time improved his parts and credited them good acquaintance at once instruct and by their various Interests set off one another Two of whom died the very same day and near as could be guessed certainly their Stars were as intimate as they and there was the like correspondence in their Genitures that was in their Affections the same hour The first Canon of our Church injoyning every Minister to Preach four times a year at least for the asserting of the Kings Authority and Supremacy Dr. Manwaring observing the diminution of both Sermons the one at Court before a Royal Auditory the other at his own Parish at St. Giles in the Fields before a noble one In both which places he was looked upon as an Eminent Preacher as became the Kings subject and Chaplain maintained at that time when the Kings necessity put him upon the Loan and his Authority commanded it much against the grain of the people as they were at that time humored That the Kings Royal Command in Imposing of Loans and Taxes though without common consent in Parliament doth oblige the subjects Conscience upon pain of Eternal damnation and that the Authority of Parliament is not necessary for the raising of Aids and Subsidies A Position for which he was Charged 1627. by Mr. Rous in Parliament aggravated by Mr. Pym into five Branches 1. His indeavor to infuse into His Majesties Conscience a perswasion of a Power not limited with Laws which he said King Iames in a Parliament Speech 1619. called Tyranny accompanyed with Perjury 2. His indeavor to perswade the Consciences of the subjects that they are bound to obey Illegal Commands yea he damns them for not obeying them 3. He robs the subject of the property of their Goods 4. He brands them that will not loose this property with most scandalous and odious Titles to make them hateful both to Prince and People 5. He indeavoureth to blow up Parliaments and Parlimentary Power which five were drawn up into one great one to use Mr. Pyms words Serpens qui serpentem devorat fit Draco viz. A mischievous Plot to alter and subvert the Frame and Government of the State and Common-wealth and Iune the thirteen 1628. censured thus 1. To be imprisoned during the pleasure of the House 2. To be fined a thousand pounds 3. To make his submission at the Bar in this House the House of Lords and the House of Commons at the Bar there in verbis conceptis by a Committee of this House 4. To be suspended from his Ministerial Function three years and in the mean time a sufficient Preaching man to be provided out of the Profits of his Living and this to be left to be performed by the Ecclesiastical Court 5.
supported 3. A mutual Security against all future fears and jealousies For which services to his Country he was forced to quit it It is not fit we should forget Sir Thomas Gardner that was slain in Buckinghamshire 1643. and Captain Gardner that fell at Thame Cum res rediit ad trianos when three engaged in the Army Sir Robert Foster of the Temple made Serjeant and succeeding Sir R. Vernon as Pusney Judge of the Commons bench 15. Car. I. Term. Hil. as the King signified by Sir Io. Finch for the good opinion he conceived of him and the good report he heard concerning him discharging his place notwithstanding the disadvantage of succeeding so popular a man as Sir George Vernon was and the difficulty of pleasing at that time both Court and Country with great commendation those persons agreeing in a Sympathy for him that had an Antipathy each to other as he did after twenty years trouble the place of Chief Justice of the Kings bench 12. Car. II. in the place of Sir Thomas Millet a great sufferer I think that Sir Thomas Millot of Exon who with his Son paid at Goldsmiths-hall 871 and an excellent Justicer who by years and other infirmities was disabled from exercising that place though surviving two of his successors when it was time to preferr neither a Dunce nor a Drone but able and active men such as he was who could Fence as well at Law in his elder years as at Sword and Buckler in his younger The Land upon its wonderful settlement under his Majesty and the never to be forgotten disbanding of a twenty years standing Army swarming with people that had been Souldiers too proud to beg and too lazy to labour and having never gotten or quite forgotten all other Calling but that of Eating Drinking and Sleeping and it being hard for Peace to feed all the idle months bred in War Sir Roberts severity broke their knots presuming much on their Felonies otherwise not to be united with the Sword of Justice possessing his Majesty against the frequent granting of Pardons as prejudicial to Justice rendring Judges obnoxious to the contempt of insolent Malefactors so by the deserved death of some hundreds preserving the lives of and lively-hoods of more thousands He died 1663 4. Pearls are called Vnions because they are found one by one hardly two together not so here where Sir Robert Hyde Serjeant at Law since Ter. Trin. 16. Car. I. of the Middle-Temple and an able Pleader his Arguments shrewd in the several reports of his time succeeded him as well in his quality as office being as severe for executing the Laws witness his several checks given Justices the great observators of Law and Peace to whom he would urge that of King Iames in his Speech in the Star-chamber That he did respect a good Iustice of the Peace as he did those next his person as much as a Privy Counsellor as his predecessor was for executing Malefactors and as strict in bringing up ancient Habits and Customes both of the Inns of Courts and the Courts of Justice as in keeping up the ancient Justice and Integrity following Sir Nicholas Hyde I think his Fathers steps according to the observation that Lawyers seldome dye without a Will or an Heir who died 1631. as Sir Robert died 1665. Judge Foster and he dying suddainly if any do so that dye preparedly As did about the same time Serjeant Hodskins a very witty as well as a very judicious man an excellent Pleader as Thuanus his Father was Vt bonus a Calumniatoriobus tenuiores a potentioribus doctos ab Ignorantibus opprimi non pateretur As Judge Walter used to say when Baron Denham his associate in the Western Circuit would tell him My Lord you are not merry enough merry enough for a Iudge So Serjeant Hodskins when observed very pleasant for one of his years would reply As chearful as an honest man Henry Hodskins and Iohn Hodskins of Dors. paid for their Loyalty 571l The Serjeant changed his temper with his capacity most free as a private friend and most grave and reserved as a publick person David Ienkins upward of 58. years a Student in Grays-Inn near London of so much skill when a private and young man that my Lord Bicon would make use of his Collections in several Cases digesting them himself and of so much repute in his latter years that Atturney Noy Herbert and Bâ—nks would send the several Cases they were to Prosecute for his Majesty to be perused by him before they were to be produced in Court All the preferment he arrived at was to be Judge of South-Wales a place he never sought after nor paid for the Patent being sent him without his knowledge and confirmed to him without his charge in which capacity if Prerogative of his dear Master or the Power of his beloved Church came in his way stretching themselves beyond the Law he would retrench them though suffering several checks for the one and Excommunication for the other Notwithstanding that he heart of Oak hazarded his life for the just extent of both for being taken prisoner at the surprize of Hereford and for his notable Vindication of the Kings Party and Cause by those very Laws to the undeceiving of thousands that were pretended against them as the violators of the Law particularly for aiding the King 25. Edw. 3. ch 2. Hen. 7. for the Commission of Array 5. Hen. 4. for Archbishops Bishops c. Magna Charta c. for the Common-prayer Statutes Edw. 6. Queen Eliz. for the Militia 7. Edw. 1. against counterfeiting the Seal and the usurping of the Kings Forts Ports 25. Edw. 3. for the Kings Supremacy 1. King Iames 5. Queen Eliz. Cook 7. p. rep fol. 11. for the Kings dissent to Bills 2. Hen. 5. against tumults in Parliament 7. Edw. 2. against adhering to any State in the Realm but the Kings Majesty 3. Iames 23. Eliz. for imprisonment and dispossession only by Law Magna Charta c. 29. and the Petition of Right 3. Car. and for increasing the fewd between the Parliament and the Army and instilling successfully into the latter principles of Allegiance by shewing them that all the Parliamentary Ordinances for Indemnity and Arrears were but blinds for the present amounting not to Laws which they could trust to for the future without his Majesties concurrence whose Restauration he convinced them was their unavoidable interest as well as their indispensable duty carried first to the Chancery secondly to the Kings-bench and at last to the Bar of their House the authority of all which places he denied and though he and the Honorable Lewis Dives who hath done his Majesty admirable service in Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire and Dorsetshire and made a cleanly conveyance away from White-hall with Mr. Holben though through the Common-shore upon pretence of Easing themselves to the Thames and so beyond Sea where he continued with his Majesty during his banishment were designed
hid themselves from others and so humble that they were not known to himself A temper as little moved with others injuries as with his own merits fit to Rule others that commanded its self Recreations Innocent and manly traversing Hills and Dales for Health and for Instruction studying God at home and Nature abroad fitting himself by generous Exercises for generous Employments to which he knew a body comely quick and vegel with Exercise was more suitable than a minde dulled with studies Though when he came to his Throne over affections the Pulpit or his Chair of State over reason his Colledge it appeared that his severe pleasures that refreshed his body loosned but melted not his minde I say sagacious Dr. Laud finding him every way rather than designing him his successor brought him out of his privacy as Pearls and rich mettals are out of obscurity to adorn his Majesties Court his modesty gaining him that respect which others seek by their ambition To have one near the King he could trust in his old age made him Dean of Worcester and Clerk of the Closet first after that Bishop elect of Hereford and then after himself Bishop of London and Lord Treasurer In the first of which places being to have Saint Pauls combate with Beasts he used Saint Pauls art became all things to all and as those that were of old exposed to Beasts overcame by yielding being most mild and most vigilant a Lamb and a Shepheard The delight of the English Nation whose Reverence was the only thing all Factions agreed in all allowing that honor to the sweetness of his manners that some denied the sacredness of his Function being by love what another is in pretence an universal Bishop the greatest because the last Bishop that was ruined that insolence that stuck not at the other Bishops out of modesty till 1649. not medling with him The other charge of Treasurer whereby all lay upon him both what the good Worship and the bad Religion and Money which was now safe under the Keys of the Church so the Romans Treasury was in their Temple and the Venetians have the one Guardian of their City and Money St. Mark he in the middest of large Expences and low Revenues managed with such integrity handling temporal wealth with the same holy temper he did the most spiritual Mysteries that the Coffers he found empty he in four years left filling and with such prudent mildness being admirably master of his Pen and Passions grace having ordered what nature could not omit the tetrarch humor of Choler That Petitioners for money when it was not to be had departed well pleased with his civilly languaged denials and though a Bishop was then odious and a Lord always suspected yet he in both capacities was never questioned though if he had he had come out of his trial like his gold having this happiness in an age of the bravest men to see more innocent than the best and happier than the greatest and if it was a comfort to them to suffer for their too great and to the Commonalty unknown and therefore suspected virtues it was more to him to be loved for that integrity which could be unkâ—own to few and hateful to none He was above others in most of his actions he was above himself in two 1. His honest advice to save my Lord of Straffords life who having appeared before a Parliament was set at last before him who though he heard Noblemen yea Clergy-men too pressing his death for the safety of the people the highest law they said the King the Church the Commonwealth asserting his life by law and right which is above all these And that brave Maxime like another Athanasius of Justice against the world Fiat justitia ruat coelum terra Ecclesia Respublica 2. His holy attendance on his late Majesty who gave him the title on his death of That honest man whereof before in his Majesties Life and Death Recollecting there all his virtues to see what the excellent King with a recollection of all graces was to suffer with a clear countenance at least before his Majesty chusing to disturb nature rather than the King looking on what his Majesty with a chearful countenance endured Thus the Sun at our Saviors Passion whereof this a Copy that was Ecclipsed to others shined clear to Christ. It was much to see the King dye with so undaunted a spirit it was more to see the Bishop behold him with so unmoved a countenance but so it became him whom his Majesty had chosen his Second in that great Duel committing to him the care of his soul both departing in himself and surviving in his Son and with it his memory and what was more his Oblivion with which and the other holy suggestions of that Royal soul he came down from the Scaffold as Moses did out of the Mount with Pardon Peace and New Law to a sinful people after the breaking of the old After God had preserved him through the many years miseâ—ies of the usurpation and the inexpressible torment of â—his disease the Stone which he endured as chearfully as he did his pleasures having patience to bear those pains which others had not patience to hear of to deliver that message to the Son which he received from the Father he Crowned King Charles II. April 25. 1661. at Westminster and went Iune 1663. to see King Charles I. Crowned in heaven having seen the Church Militant here settled 1662. he was made a Member of the Triumphant 1663. full not only of honor and days but of his own wishes too leaving near 10000 l. to augment the St. Iohns Revenue at Oxford Colledge Repair St. Pauls and Cantâ—rbury Cathedrals and finish the building of the New-hall at Lambeth which he had begun besides directions throughout the Province to repair Churches and Church-aedisices improve Vicarages and establish peace Iuly 9. he was buried in St. Iohns with as great solemnity as the University could afford Dr. South making an excellent Oration upon the occasion in the Divinity Schools and Dr. Levens of St. Iohns the like in the Colledge Crete being not more proud of the Grave and Cradle of Iove nor the King of Spain of the Suns rising and setting in his Dominions than that House may be that Dr. Iuxon and Dr. Laud was bred there As he had gone on in the same course acted on the same principles enjoyed the same honors so he lieth in the same Grave with his friend and patron Archbishop Laud. Dr. Walter Curle born in Strafford near Hatfield my Lord Cecil's house to whom his Father was serviceable in detecting several Plots referring to the Queen of Scots as his Agent and in settling the estate he had from the Queen of England as his Steward And by whom he was made Auditor of the Court of Wards to Queen Elizabeth and King Iames and his Son preferred in Christ-Colledge and Peter-house in Cambridge His Lord gave him a
would likewise in this Nation over-rule all Power Authority Order and Laws that keep them within compass from without when those unruly Lusts Pride Ambition Animosity Discontent Popularity Revenge c. would over-run all those Banks that were raised against them have been 1. The Dubiousness of the Royal Title the ground of thirty six Rebellions one hundred forty six Battle since the Conquest In all which though the Rebels were usually the most the Loyallists were always the best and when the many followed sometimes a prosperous Villany the most noble and excellent stood to or fell with an afflicted right and bore down all umbrages with this real truth That the Crown took off all defects and that any man may pretend arguments to begin a War when but few can make arguments when it is begun to make an end of it 2. The Liberty of the Subject forsooth the old Quarrel for which the Throng and Rabble would venture much when wiser men maintained that there was no greater oppression in the world than a Liberty for men to do what they pleased and that Government is the great security of freedome 3. Religion for whose sake so many resisted Authority when one of the Maximes of this Religion is that none should resist upon pain of damnation and albeit the Factious in all Ages have been many that have taught men for Religions sake to disobey Authority yet the sober in those Ages have been as many that taught them that for Religion-sake they should obey them that have the rule over them But when towards the last that is the worst Ages of the world wickedness grows wiser upon the experiences and observations of former times and twists all these pretensions into one there have been excellent persons that with their lives and fortunes asserted Government and have been Confessors and Martyrs to this great truth That it is upon no pretence lawâ—â—l to resist the Supream Authority of a Nation a truth that keeps up the world without which it had been long ere this a desolation Upon the Reformation in Henry the eighth's time it fell out in England as Luther observes it did in most other reformed Churches that the Papists finding that their way was so odious that it was to no purpose for it to appear here with open face to settle it self therefore did they under several covert pretexts and cunning scruples endeavour to unsettle all other ways and when it could not establish it self to hinder all other Professions from being established that at least they might watch some opportunities whereof there are many offered in distracted times For no sooner was our Church setled on the Primitive principles of Religion and Government than some of those that fled into the free States and the places of popular reformation in Germany returning when most preferments were gone and living upon the Liberality of well-disposed People set up some popular scruples against the established Government and among the rest Iohn Hooper having been long in Switzerland upon his election to be Bishop of Gloucester scrupled several Ornaments and Rights of our Church the Earl of Warwick afterwards Duke of Northumberland having a design to oblige all Parties in order to a project he had set up to convey the Crown to his own family to preserve the Reformation though he died a Papist writes to Arch-Bishop Cranmer to dispence with the publick Laws to satisfie a private mans humor and when his Letter would not do makes the young King write another and now Cranmer and Ridley stand up for these great Principles of Government Let private Spirits yeild to publick establishments there is no end of yeilding to scruples one scruple indulged begetting another so long till there be no more Law than pleaseth the humoursome be well advised in making Laws and resolute in keeping them Notwithstanding that the learned and wise Ridley suffered almost as much for his asserting the Government of our Church at that rate from the Puritans as he did afterwards for asserting the Doctrine of it from the Papists he was Martyr to the Protestant Church and a Confessor to the Church of England Hooper not being reconciled to him until the Sun of their lives was going down and their heart-burning upon this occasion was not quenched till the Fire was kindled that burned both their bodies The Lord Admiral Seymour was a back-Friend to Common-Prayer and old Latimer takes him and others up for it I have heard say when that the good Queen that is gone had ordained in her house daily Prayers both before noon and afternoon the Admiral getteth him out of the way like a mole digging in the earth he shall be Lots wife to me as long as I live He was I heard say a covetous man a covetous man indeed I would there were no more in England He was I heard say a seditious man a contemner of Common-Prayer I would there were no more in England Well! he is gone I would he had left none behind him Yea when the death of King Edward the sixth put an end to these differences among Protestants but putting an end to the publick profession of the Protestant Religion it self in this Nation the forementioned scruples accompanied some hot-Spirited men to their exiles under Queen Mary When Master Calvins Authority who forsooth observed some Tolerabiles Ineptiâ in our establishment and Master Knox Master Whittingam Goodman and Foxes zeal cried down the whole Platform of our English Reformation the judgement and gravity of Master Horn afterwards Bishop of Winchester the learning of Bishop Poynet and Iuel the piety and prudence of Doctor Sands and Doctor Coxe the moderation and calmness of Master afterwards Archbishop Grindall and Chambers the Reputation of Sir Iohn Cheeke Sir Anthony Cooke Francis afterwards Sir Francis Knolles bore it up until it pleased God that with Queen Elizabeth it was again established and restored by the Law of the Realm In the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Reign all persons were so intent upon obviating the Publick Dangers that they had no leasure to minde particular Animosities though as the Danow and the Savus in Hungary run with party-colour'd Waters in the same Channel so the several sorts of Protestants upon that alteration with several Opinions maintained the same Religion until the year 1563. when the Canons and Articles of the Church being confirmed the Governours of the Church began as it was their duty to press Conformity and they whom it concerned to oppose that Establishment refused subscription Father Foxe as Queen Elizabeth used to call him pulling out his Greek Testament and saying He would subscribe to that and that he had nothing in the Church save a Prebend of Salisbury and if they would take that away much good may it do them Laurence Humphred determining something de Adiaphoris non juxtà cum Ecclesia Anglicanâ They are Camdens own words Nay Anthony Gibby of Lincolnshire declaring in Print That the
the Suggestions wherewith they had prepossessed his Majesty and the powerful Intercession of many Grandees was much beyond their expectation the King declaring that if that be all the Presbyterians have to say which they said there they should Conform or he would hurry them out of the Land or do worse whereupon another Petition is out of hand carried on and Hands not so much gathered as scraped to it Mr. George Goring afterwards Earl of Norwich being in the right of his zealous Mother one of the Subscribers when he was so young as to know but little and care less for Church-Government and the thing not so much to be presented to his Majesty to incline him as to be scattered up and down the Nation to Enrage and Engage the People some great ones consenting to it and some potent strangers i.e. Scots undertaking to conduct and manage it Insomuch that Arch-bishop Whitgift fearing a stronger Assault of Non-Conformists against Church-Discipline than his Age-feebled body should be able to withstand desired that he might not live to see the Parliament that was to be 1603 4 and indeed he did not for he died before it of a Cold got by going one cold Morning to Fulham to consult with the Bishops and other learned men what was best to be done for the Church in the next Parliament And though after his death wise and resolute Bishop Bancroft secured the Church-government by an hundred fourty one Canons against all Innovations And the Puritans were grown to such a degree of odiousness with King Iames and some Courtiers that the very Family of love made a Petition to King Iames to be distinguished from them as either ashamed or afraid to be of their Number Yea and though the wise King had silenced all the popular Pretensions with his wise Maxime No Bishop no King yet Bishop Bancroft suffered so much in Libels the Squibs and Paper-Guns that made way for the Gunning that followed that a Gentleman bringing him one of them that he had taken up was desired to lay it up in such a place where he said there were an hundred more of that nature and was censured for a Papist while he lived and had the Brethrens good word when he died to this purpose Here lies his Grace in cold Clay clad Who died for want of what he had And upon his altering of his Will He who never repented of doing ill Repented that once he made a good Will An Assembly in Aberdeen made a fearful work in Scotland An Insurrection was made in Warwick-shire under pretence indeed of throwing down the Inclosures of some Fields but indeed to overthrow those of the Church and State There were three days hot Contest 1607. between the Bishops and Judges before the King about the Limitations of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Courts and about Prohibitions Then the dangerous Book called The Interpreter came out And therewith so much fear jealousie and suspition as caused the Lords and Commons and the whole Realm to take anew the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and so many strange Motions were made in the Parliament continued for six years together that the King thought fit by Proclamation to dissolve it The Faction that would forsooth redress Grievances in the Church to make their Party the more take in hand all the Grievances in the State So that no sooner was a man discontented upon any occasion but he was made a Puritan streight some of that Party taking his Cause in hand insomuch that they were looked upon as the Patrons of the Subjects Liberty and the best Patriots and Common-wealths-men all others being esteemed Betrayers of their Country and Court-Parasites And now they were broke in Parliament they trouble the Bishops and others in every Court countenancing Offenders teaching them to elude the Law vexing Ecclesiastical Courts with Prohibitions endeavouring to overthrow his Majesty's Power over the Church in the Star-Chamber and High-Commission Poor Dr. Howson is suspended at Oxford Propter Conciones minus Orthodoxas offensionis plenas Onely for discovering the danger of admitting the Geneva-Notes Mr. Lawd censured both for a Sermon and a Position by the same party Yea and learned Selden le ts fly upon all the Parsonage-Barns the dreadfullest storm that they had endured a long time in a Book called The History of Tythes In the Preface to which Book he lets fly as desperately against the persons of the Orthodox Clergy as he had done in the body of it against their Maintenance Dr. Mocket no sooner published his Politica Ecclesiae Anglicanae to satisfie the World but his Book was burned and his heart broken to satisfie a Faction though very learned and good men were by them set against his Book They like the Cat putting others upon that hot service whereon they would not venture their own paws What ill Offices were done Bishop Laud and Bishop Neale to King Iames by the Lord Chancellour Elsemere upon the Instigation of Dr. Abbot the Archbishop of Canterbury How Bishop Laud was opposed in the matter of his Election to the Headship of St. Iohn's What rancounters there were between him and Bishop Williams whom that Party had incensed against him The Ratling he had from the Archbishop of Canterbury for but procuring poor Vicars some ease in the point of Subsidies the Archbishop pretending that he meddled too much with Publick Affairs though the Duke of Buckingham and Bishop Williams himself confessed that it was the best service that had been done the Church for seven years before These and many more the great sufferings of men well-affected to the Government of the Church are notorious in King Iames his time but not so eminent as those in King Charles his days When the King being engaged by them in a War and other Troubles for it was at their request that Prince Charles moved his Father to declare a War against the Spaniard they being curbed all the Reign of King Iames thought they had the onely opportunity that men could wish in the world for the King could not go to War without Money and Men these they had taught the People could not be raised without their Consent in Parliament where among the discontented and ill-bred Gentlemen whom the Non-Conformists had bred up for when you could hear little of them in the Church in the latter end of Queen Elizabeth's Reign and throughout King Iames they lurked as Schoolmasters and Chaplains in Gentlemens houses They had a great stroke and so great that the Duke of Buckingham by Dr. Preston did a great while court the Puritan Faction and nothing would they graâ—t the King unless he would let them do what was good in their own eyes King Charles having the Care of three Kingdoms intrusted with him by the Laws of God and the Land and finding the danger they were brought into called upon the Parliament to assist him with such Tribute and Contribution as might be proportionable to the greatness of his
as the Fool thinketh so the Bell tinketh Besides principles of Policy as much against all Reason and Laws as these are against all Religion As 1. That the King and the two Houses made up but one Parliament 2. And that the King but a Member might be overruled by the Head 3. That the hereditary King of England is accountable to the People 4. That it might be lawful for the two House to seize the Kings Magazines Navies Castles and Forces and imploy them against him the Militia being they said in them not in him though they begged it of him 5. That when the King withdrew from the London-Tumults he deserted his Parliament and People and therefore might be warred against 6. That the two Houses might impose an Oath upon the King and Kingdom to subvert the Government and Kingdom who never had power to administer an Oath between man and man except it were their own Members 7. That an Ordinance of the two Houses should be of force to raise Men and Money to seize peoples Lands and Goods to alter Religion without the Kings consent without which they never signified any thing in England save within their own Walls 8. That the two Houses yea and some few of those two Houses should make a new Broad-seal create new Judges and Officers of State ordain a new Allegiance and a new Treason never heard of before and pronounce their Betters that is to say all the Nobility Clergy and Gentry Delinquents against their Blew-apronships 9. That they who took so much care that a man should not part with a penny to save the Kingdom unless they had Law for it should force so many Millions out of the poor people by a bare piece of paper called an Ordinance This was the Cause called The good old Cause on the one side when on the other there was 1. The Law of the Land 2. The established Religion 3. The Protestant Cause 4. The Kings Authority 5. The Church of England and the Catholick Church 6. The Allegiance and Obedience required by the Laws of God and Man from Subjects to Sovereigns 7. The Peace Tranquillity Safety and Honour of the Nation 8. The many obligations of Conscience especially the Oaths taken by the Nobility Clergy and all the people several times ten times a man at least and particularly the Oaths taken by every Member of the House of Commons at their first admission to sit there when they took the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the Protestation they took after they sate 9. The true liberty and property of the Subject 10. The security of Religion and Learning against the horrid Heresies Schisms Libertinism Sacriledge and Barbarism that was ready to overrun the Land 11. All the Principles of Religion Reason Policy and Government that hitherto have been received in the most civil part of the World managed against the canting and pious frauds and fallacies of the Conspiracy with that clearness that became the goodness of the Cause and the integrity of the persons that managed it 12. The common Cause of all the Kings and Governments of the World 13. The Rights Priviledges Prerogatives and Inheritances of the ancient Kingdom of England 14. The conveyance of their ancient Birth-rights Liberties Immunities and Inheritances as English-men and Christians to Posterity 15. The publick good against the private lusts ambition pride revenge covetousness and humour of any person or persons whatsoever 16. The opinion of all the learned Divines and Lawyers in the World 17. All the Estates in England made then a prey to the most potent and powerful I mean the Lands and Revenues of most of the Nobility Clergy and Commons of England 18. The sparing of a world of bloud and treasure that poor misguided Souls were like to lavish away upon the juggles of a few Impostors This was the Cause on the other hand and such as the Causes were were the persons ingaged in them Against the King the Law and Religion were a company of poor Tradesmen broken and decayed Citizens deluded and Priest-ridden women discontented Spirits creeping pitiful and neglected Ministers and Trencher-Chaplains Enthusiastical Factions such as Independents Anabaptists Seekers Quakers Levellers Fifth Monarchy-men Libertines the rude Rabble that knew not wherefore they were got together Jesuited Politicians Taylers Shoomakers Linkboys c. guilty and notorious Offenders that had endured or feared the Law perjured and deceitful Hypocrites and Atheists mercenary Souldiers hollow-hearted and ambitious Courtiers one or two poor and disobliged Lords cowardly and ignorant Neuters here and there a Protestant frighted out of his wits These were the Factions Champions when on the Kings side there were all the Bishops of the Land all the Deans Prebends and learned men both the Universities all the Princes Dukes and Marquesses all the Earls and Lords except two or three that stayed at Westminster to make faces one upon another and wait on their Masters the Commons until they bid them go about their business telling them they had nothing to do for them and voting them useless All the Knights and Gentlemen in the three Nations except a score of Sectaries and Atheists that kept with their Brethren and Sisters for the Cause The Judges and best Lawyers in the Land all the States-men and Counsellours the Officers and great men of the Kingdoms all the Princes and States of Europe Of all which gallant persons take this Catalogue of Honour containing the Lives Actions and Deaths of those eminent persons of Quality and Honour that Died or otherwise Suffered for their Religion and Allegiance from the year 1637 to this present year 1666. For the lasting honour of their Persons and Families the reward of their eminent Services and Sufferings the perpetual memory of the Testimony they gave to the duty of Subjects towards their Sovereign the satisfaction of all the World the Compleating of History the encouragement of Virtue and Resolution the instruction of the present Age and Posterity The Faction take the same course to ruine a Kingdom that they said the Gods took to ruine a Man first to infatuate and then overthrow make the first stroke at the Head and Councel of the Nation judging that they must take off and terrifie the Kings Council and Friends before they could practice on his Majesty or the Government so Tarquin was advised to take off the tallest Poppeys My Lord of Strafford they knew very active wise resolved and serviceable when he maintained the Liberty of the Subject against the Prerogatives of the Sovereign and him they judged most dangerous now he maintained the Rights and Power of his Sovereign against the Encroachments of their Faction He leads the Van of this gallant Company of Martyrs and the first Heroe that sealed his Allegiance with his bloud and Consecrated the Controversie a Protomartyr like St. Stephen knocked on the head by a Rabble rather then fairly tried in Courts condemned with Stones rather than Arguments instructing Loyal Subjects How when
Table-book and Common-place rather than his heart Iulius Caesar said other mens wives should not be loose but his should not be suspected And this great Lord advised the Primate of Ireland that as no Clergy man should be in reality guilty of compliance with a Schism so should not he in appearance Adding when the Primate urged the dangers on all sides as Caesar once said You are too old to fear and I too sickly A true saying since upon the opening of his Body it was found that he could not have lived according to the course of Nature six moneths longer than he did by the malice of his Enemies his own Diseases having determined his life about the same period that the Nations distemper did and his Adversaries having prevailed nothing but that that death which he just paying as a debt to Nature should be in the instant hallowed to a Sacrifice for Allegiance and he that was dying must be martyred and just when he put off his Coronet Put on a Crown Philip the I. of Spain said he could not compass his design as long as Lerma lived nor the Scots theirs as long as Strafford acts and with his own single worth bears up against the Plot of three Kingdoms like Sceva in the breach with his single resolution duelling the whole Conspiracy That now being resolved into two Committees the one of Scots the other of English first impeach him Decemb. 17. of High Treason in the House of Lords though so Innocent and so well satisfied in his own present integrity that when he might have kept with an Army that loved him well at York to give Law to those conspitors he came to receive Law from them and when he might have been secure in his Government and in the Head of an Army in Ireland he came to give an account of that Government and Army in England laying down his own Sword to be subject to others and teaching how well he could Govern by shewing how well he could obey yea when he might have retired and charged his Adversaries as Bristow did Buckingham with that conspiracy for the overthrow of Government wherewith they charged him He being able to prove how P. H. H. K. S. H. S. that thirst most for his blood had correspondence with and gave counsel to the Kings Enemies in Scotland and Ireland and England when they could prove no more for the alteration of the Law against him than that he gave advice to the King according to his place to support them yet he tamely yeilded his whole life to be scanned by those that could not be safe but when he was dead and having mannaged the great trust reposed in him by the Laws of Antient Parliaments was not afraid to submit himself to the censure of this Rather than hide his head in some Forreign Nation that offered him Sanctuary saying That England had but one good head and that was to be Cut off meaning His he would loose in his own scorning for services done his own King to beg protection of another The brave man judging that he deserved death that minute he feared it and that he was fit to be Condemned that day he refused to be Tryed appeared in Parliament and Counsel with that resolution that afterwards he appeared at the Bar with till the Scots thinking their guilt could not be pardoned till his Innocence was Impeached and that their vast Accounts amounting to 514128l 9s could not pass till he was laid up to give up his as he was in Decemb. 1640 and the Scots going with the English first Impeached and afwards Ian. 30. compleated their Charge against him which drawn up in two hundred sheets of paper was brought to the Peers by Pym and how Sir Henry V. short Notes multiplied were read Feb. 24. to the Peers before the King and Feb. 25. to the Commons consisting of 28. Articles to which having Counsel allowed him in matter of Law after three dayes debate about it and they allowed to plead but in matters they were restrained to by the House he answered in Westminster-Hall before the King Queen the Prince and Courtiers in an apartment by themselves and the whole Parliament an Audience equal to the greatness of the Earls Person and the Earl of Lindsey being Lord High Constable for the day the Earl of Arundel Lord High Steward on the 22. of March as to matter of Fact in general and the Court adjourning to the next day then in particular to 13 Articles put to him of a suddain as first that he had withdrawn 24000l out of Exchequer of Ireland for his own use Secondly That the Irish Garrisons had in the years 1635 1636. c. been maintained with English Treasure Thirdly That he had preferred infamous and Popish persons such as the Bishop of Waterford c. in the Irish Church To which notwithstanding the surprize of a Vote wherein the Parliament of Ireland charged him of High Treason a Copy whereof was delivered sealed to the Lords at that very instant with purpose to discompose him An emergency that transported him indeed to say in passion That there was a Conspiracy against him which when the Faction aggravated as if he charged with High Treason by both Houses of Parliaments should charge both Parliaments with a Conspiracy though he execused it as meant of particular and private persons â—raving pardon for the inconsiderateness of the expression He answered with an undaunted Presence of spirit with firm Reason and powerful Eloquence to this purpose that the Money he had taken for himself was no other than what Money he had paid for the King before Secondly That he had eased the Kingdom of those Garrisons wherewith it had been burthened during his Predecessors time Thirdly That the Bishop of Waterford had deceived him and satisfied the Law and the next day after Marchâ— 24. to these Articles all the forementioned 28. Articles being 〈◊〉 urged he replyed thus The First Article insisted on That 31. Aâ—â—â—â—sâ—â—33 â—â—33 he being Lord President of the North and Justice of Peace publickly at the York Aâ—â—â—zes declared that some Justices were all for Law but they should find that the Kings little singer should be heavier than the loines of the Law testified by Sir David Fowls c. The Earles Reply That Sir David Fowls was his profest Enemy that his words were clearly inverted that his expression was That the little â—inger of the Law if not moderated by the Kings gracious Clemency was heavier then the Kings loins That these were his words he verified First by the occasion of them they being spoken to some whom the Kings favour had then enlarged from imprisonment at York as a motive to their thank fulness to his Majesty Secondly By Sir William Pennyman a Member of the House who was then present and heard the words which Sir William declaring to be true the House of Commons required Iustice of the Lords against him because he had Voted the Articles as
conceived it was not more then the hainousness of their Offences deserved yet had they Petitioned and submitted the next day it would wholly have been remitted 15. That he perswaded his Majesty to an offensive War against the Scots declaring that the Demands made by the Scots this Parliament was a sufficient Cause of a War besides that on the 10th of Octob. 1640. he said That the Nation of Scots were Rebells and Traytors adding that if it pleased his Master to send him back again as he was going to England he would leave the Scottish Nation neither Root nor Branch excepting those that took the aforesaid Oath The Earles Reply That he called all the Scottish Nation Traytors and Rebells no one Proof is produced and though he is hasty in speech yet was he never so defective of his reason as to speak so like a mad Man for he knew well his Majesty was a Native of that Kingdom and was confident many of that Nation were of as Heriock Spirits and as Faithful and Loyal Subjects as any the King had As to the other words of his rooting out the Scots Root and Branch he conceives a short Reply may serve they being proved by a single Testimony onely which can make no sufficient faith in case of life Again the witnesse was very much mistaken if not worse for he deposeth that these words were spoken the tenth day of October in Ireland whereas he was able to evidence he was at that time in England and had been so neer a month before 18. That when the Parliament 13 April 1640. entred upon the Grievances in Church and State the Earl to whom with the Arch Bishop of Canterbury the King referred the business of that Parliament advised his Majesty to press the Commons to supply his Majesties occasions against the Scots before they Redressed any Grievances And when they were in debate about the Supplies perswaded his Majesty to dissolve them by telling him they had denyed to supply him Adding after the dissolution of that Parliament that the King having tried the Affections of his people he was loosed and absolved from all Rules of Government and was to do every thing that Power would admit and that since his Majesty had tried all ways and was refused he should be Acquitted both by God and Man and that he had an Army in Ireland which he might imploy to reduce this Kingdom to obedience The Earles Reply That he was not the Principal Cause of Dissolving the last Parliament for before he came to the Council-table it was Voted by the Lords to Demand twelve Subsidies and that Henry Vane was Ordered to Demand no lesse But he coming in the interim he perswades the Lords to Vote it again Declaring to his Majesty then present and them the danger of the Breach of Parliament Whereupon it was Voted that if the Parliament would not grant twelve Subsidies Sir Henry Vane would descend to eight and rather than fail to six But Sir Henry not observing his Instructions demanded twelve only without abatement or going lower That the height of this Demand urged the Parliament to deny and their denial moved his Majesty to Dissolve the Parliament so that the chief occasion of the Breach thereof `was as he conceived Sir Henry Vane He confesseth that at the Council-table he Advised the King to an Offensive War against the Scots but it was not untill all fair means to prevent a War had been first attempted Again others were as much for a Defensive War and it might be as free to Vote one as the other Lastly Votes at a Council-board are but bare Opinions and Opinions if pertinaciously maintained may make an Heretick but cannot a Traytor And to Sir Henry Vanes Deposition he said it was onely a single testimony and contradicted by four Lords of the Iunto-tables depositions viz. The Earle of Northumberland the Marquess of Hamilton the Bishop of London and the Lord Cottington who all affirmed that there was no question made of this Kingdome which was then in obedience but of Scotland that was in Rebellion And Sir Henry Vane being twice Examined upon Oath could not remember whether he said this or that Kingdome and the Notes after offered for more proof were but the same thing and added nothing to the Evidence to make it a double Testimony or to make a Privy-councellors Opinion in a Debate at Council High-treason 19. That after the Dissolution of the Parliament April 5. 1640. The said Earl Advised the King to go on vigorously to Levy Ship-money and other Illegal Payments suing in Star-chamber and Imprisoning several that neglected either to gather or pay those Levies Particularly the Londoners who for not Collecting the Ship-money so vigorously as they should have done and refusing to give in the names of such Citizens as were able to Lend Moneyâ— upon the Loan of an 100000l demanded of them were threatned by him at the Council-table That they deserved to be put to Fine and Ransom and that no good would be done with them till an Example were made of them till they were laid by the Heeles and some of the Aldermen Hanged up The Earles Reply That there was a present necessity for Money that all the Council-board had Voted with yea before him That there was then a Sentence in Star-chamber upon the Opinion of all the Iudges for the Legality of the Tax of Ship-money and he thought he might advice the King to take what the Iudges had declared was by Law his own He consessed that upon the Refusal of so just a Service the better to quicken the Citizenâ— to the Payment of Ship-money he said They deserved to be Fined Which words perhaps might be circumspectly delivered but conceives cannot be a motive to Treason especially when no ill consequence followed upon them And it would render Men in a sad condition if for every hasty Word or Opinion given in Council they should be Sentenced as Traytors But that he said It were well for the Kings Service if some of the Aldermen were hanged up he utterly denieth Nor is it proved by any but Alderman Garway who is at best but a single Testimony and therefore no sufficient Evidence in Case of Life 20. That he had Advised the King to seise upon the Bullion in the Mint and when the Merchants whose Bullion was seized on to the value of 50000l waited upon him at his house to represent to him the consequence of discrediting the Mint and hindering the Importance of Bullion Answered them that it was the course of other Princes in those exigencies to which the undutifulness of London kinder to the Rebells than to his Majesty had reduced the King And that he had directed the Imfusing of money with Brasse Alleadging to the Officers of the Mint when they represented to him the Inconvenience of that Project that the French King had an Army of horse to Levy his Taxes and search mens Estates and telling my Lord Cottington that
stood by that that was a point worth his consideration The Earles Reply That he expected some proof to evidence the two first particulars but he hears of none For the following words he confessed probably they might escape the Door of his Lips nor did he think it much amiss considering the present posture to call that Faction Rebels As for the last words objected against him in that Article he said that being in conference with some of the Londoners there came to his hands at that present a Letter from the Earl of Lichester then in Paris wherein were the Gazettes enclosed relating that the Cardinal had given order to â—evy Money by Souldiers This he onely told the Lord Cottington standing by but he made not the least Application thereof to the English affairs 21. That being Lieutenant-General of the Northern Forces against the Scots 1639. he Imposed 6d per diem on the Inhabitants of York-shire for the maintenance of Trained Bands by his own Authority threatning them that refused with imprisonment and other penalties little below those inflicted for High-Treason The Earles Reply That his Majâ—sty coming to York it was thought necessary in regard the Enemy was upon the Borders to keep the Trained-bands on foot for the defence of the Country and therefore the King directed him to Write to the Free-holders in York-shire to declare what they would do for their own defence that they freely offered a months pay nor did any man grudge against it Again it was twice propounded to the great Council of Peâ—rs at York that the King approved it as a just and necessary act and none of the Council contradicted it which he conceived seemed a tacit allowance of it That though his Majesty had not given him special Order therein nor the Gentry had desired it yet he conceived he had power enough to Impose that Tax by Vertue of his Commission But he never said that the Refusers should he guilty of little less than High-â—reason which being proved by Sir William Ingram he was but a single Testimony and one who had formerly mistaken himself in what he had deposed 22. That he being Lieutenant-General against the Scots suffered New-Castle to be Lost to them with design to incense the English against the Scots And that he ordered my Lord Conway to Fight them upon disadvantage the said Lord having satisfied him that his Forces were not equal to the Scots out of a malicious desire to Engage the two Kingdomes in a National and Bloudy War The Earles Reply That he admired how in the third Article he being charged as an Incendiary against the Scots is now in this Article made their Confederate by Betraying New-Castle into their hands But to answer more particularly he said That there were at New-Castle the 24. of August ten or twelve thousand Foot and two thousand Horse under the Command of the Lord Conway and Sir Jacob Ashley and that Sir Jacob had writ to him concerning the Town of New-castle that it was Fortified which also was under his particular Care and for the passage over the River of Tine His Majesty sent special direction to the Lord Conway to secure it and therefore that Lord is more as he conceives responsible for that miscarriage than himself These replies were so satisfactory in themselves and so nobly managed by him that they exceeded the expectation of the Earles Friends and defeated that of his Enemies Insomuch that finding both the number and the weight of their former Articles ineffectual their multitude being not as they designed able to hide their weakness they would needs force him the next day notwithstanding a â—it of the Stone that made it as much as his life was worth to stir abroad which though testified by the Leiutenant of the Tower they measuring the Earles great spirit that scorned to owe his brave Life to ignoble Acts by their own mean one believed not and when convinced aiming at his ruin rather than tryal regarded not to answer others I mean those obscure Notes that Sir Henry Vane whose covetousness having as great a mind to a part of the Earles Estate as others ambition had to the snips of his Power betrayed his trust and honour to satisfie his malice took under his Hat at Council-board May 5. 1040. the day the last Parliament was Dissolved treacherously laid up in his Closet maliciously and by his own Son Harry who must be pretended forsooth as false to the Father as ever the Father had been to his Master and when sent to one Closet finding a little Key there to have ransacked another where these Notes lay conveyed to Master Pym slyly by Master Pym and the Commons who would needs have a conference with the Lords that very afternoon urged so vehemently that the Lords who thought it reasonable that the Earles Evidence might be heard as well as his Adversaries were bassled to a compliance with the Commons in this Vote that the Earl should appear April 13th as he did And when these Notes were Read viz. No danger of a War with Scotland if Offensive not Defensive K. C. H. How can we undertake an Offensive War if we have no money L. L. Ir. Borrow of the City an hundred thousand pounds go on vigorously to Levy Ship-money your Majesty having tried the affections of your People you are absolved and loose from all Rules of Government and to do what Power will admit Your Majesty hath tryed all ways and being refused shall be Acquitted before God and Man And you have an Army in Ireland that you may Imploy to reduce this Kingdom to obedience for I am confident the Scots cannot hold out five months The Town is full of Lords put the Commission of Array on foot and if any of them stir we will make them smart Answered thus calmly and clearly his nature being not overcome nor his temper altered by the arts of his Adversaries That being a Privy Counsellor he conceived he might have the freedom to Vote with others his opinion being as the exigent required It would be hard measure for Opinions Resulting from such Debates to be prosecuted under the notion of Treason And for the main Hint suggested from these words The King had an Army in Ireland which he might Imploy here to reduce this Kingdom he Answereth That it is proved by the single Testimony of one man Secretary Vanâ— not being of validity in Law to create faith in a Case of Debt much less in Life and Death That the Secretaries Deposition was very dubious For upon two Examinations he could not Remember any such words And the third time his Testimony was various but that I should speak such words and the like And words may be very like in Sound and differ in Sense as in the words of my charge here for there and that for this puts an end to the Controversie There were present at this Debate but eight Privy Counsellors in all two are not to be produced
and council such Irish as could not endure the strictness and civility of his government In fine such whose frauds and force were met with by his prudence and prowess He whom three Kingdomes agreed against in their Faction indeed so excellent a Personage was not to be ruined but by the pretended hatred of the whole Empire He whom the Mercenary Lawyers and Orators represented so monstrously appeared so innocent that some of his very Enemies said in much anger you may be sure that their Charge of Misdemeanors proved no other than a Libel of Slanders and the disingaged and honest part of the Nation with as much pleasure to find so great faults reflected on the unhappiness of great Ministers whose parts and trust must be their crimes whose happy councils are envied and unsuccesseful though prudent ones severely accused When they err every one condemneth them and their wise advices few praise For those that are benefited envy and such as are disappointed hate those that gave them The Faction thus baffled by his Abilities and Innocence and run down by Master Lane the Princes Atturneys Argument for with much ado they allowed him Master Lane Recorder Gardiner Master Loe and Master Lightfoot for Council though in point of Law in such matters as they would allow them to plead in viz. That these words in the Statute of 25. Edw. 3. Because particular Treasons could not be then defined therefore what the Parliament shall declare to be Treason in time to come should be punished as Treason being the words of a declarative and penal Statute ought to be understood literally and that this Salvo was Repealed 6. Hen. 4. when it was Enacted that nothing shall be esteemed Treason but what is literally contained in the Statute 25. Edw. 3. drew up the Bill of Attainder a Law after the Fact with a shameful Caution that the unparallel'd thing should not be drawn into a Precedent so securing themselves who really designed that alteration of Government they falsly charged him with from the return of the same Injustice on themselves which they Acted on him A Bill that they Passed in two days so eager were they of bloud and so fearful of delays and sober consideration notwithstanding the generous dissent of a fifth part of the Commons men of honest hopes who disdained to administer to the lusts of the Faction in the bloud of so much innocent Gallantry though with the hazard of their lives being Posted and Marked out to the fury of the Rabble And by the Midwifery of a Tumult of 5 or 6000. people instigated and directed by unquiet Members of the House of Commons that were seen amongst them to the great dishonour of their persons and places forced upon as many of the Peers as would or durst Sit and that was scarce a third part in whose thin house after the King had so frankly declared three things May. 1. in the Earles behalf before both House viz. 1. That he was never advised to bring the Irish Army into England 2. That no man ever durst create in him the least jealousie of his English Subjects Loyalty 3. That no man ever dared to move him to alter the least much less all the Laws of England It scarcely Passed after so many hideous Riots raised by the Pulpit Demagogues Sunday May 2. by seven Voices And when brought to his Majesty who had earnestly intreated them by all the Franke Concessions he had made to them that Parliament not to press him in so tender a point and though the Tumults without and the Sollicitations within several Courtiers looking on the Earl as the Herd doth on an hurt Deer hoping his blood would be the lustration of the Court ran high the Gracious King being loath to leave so faithful and brave a man a Sacrifice to popular rage there stuck until 1. The Judges upon whose judgment the Bishops when sent for advised his Majesty to rely in matter of Law they being sworn to declare the Law equally between the King and his People pronounced him guilty of Treason in the general though they confessed he was not so in any particulars the point his Majesty pressed much upon them 2. The Parliament City and Country importuned him his very followers tyring him with that Maxime the weaknesse whereofâ— many of them lived to see and suffer Some talk of a Paper-promise the King gave him wherein was write upon Better one man perish though unjustly than the people be displeased or destroyed And the Parliament wearying him with that clamor rather than reason that their Vote though against his Judgement should satisfie his Conscience 3. The Earl offered himself a Victime like Hurtius for the Kingdomes Peace and the Kings Safety in this Letter to his Majesty The Earl of Strafford's Letter to the King May it please your Majesty IT hath been my greatest grief in all these troubles to be taken as a person who should indeavour to represent and set things amisse between your Majesty and your People and to give council tending to the disquiet of the three Kingdomes Most true it is that mine own private condition considered it had been a great madnesse since through your gracious favour I was so provided as not to expect in any kind to mend my fortune or please my mind more than by resting where your bounteous hand had placed me Nay it is most mightily mistaken for unto your Majesty is well known my poor and humble advises concluded still in this that your Majesty and your people could never be happy till there were a Right Understanding betwixt you and them no other means to effect and settle this happinesse but by the counsel and assent of the Parliament or to prevent the growing evils upon this State but by intirely putting your self in your last resort upon the Loyalty and good Affection of your English Subjects Yet such is my misfortune this truth findeth little credit the contrary seemeth generally believed and my self reputed as something of separation between you and your people under a heavier censure than which I am perswaded no Gentleman can suffer Now I understand the minds of men are more incensed against me notwithstanding your Majesty hath declared that in your Princely Opinion I am not guilty of Treason nor are you satisfied in your Conscience to Passe the Bill This bringeth me into a very great streight there is before me the ruin of my Children and Family hitherto untouched in all the branches of it with any foul Crimes Here is before me the many Ills which may befal your Sacred Person and the whole Kingdom should your self and the Parliament part lesse satisfied one with another than is necessary for the preservation of King and People Here are before me the things most valued most feared by mortal man Life or Death To say Sir that there hath been no strife in me were to make me lesse than God knoweth I am and mine infirmities give
scena calamitosa virtutis Actoribus morbo morte invidia Quae ternis animosa Regnis non vicit tamen Sed oppressis Sic inclinavit Heros non minus Caput Belluae vel sic multorum Capitum Merces furoris Scotici praeter pecunias Erubuit ut tetigit securis Similem quippe nunquam degustavit sanguinem Monstrum narro fuit tam infensus legibus Ut prius legem quam nata foret violavit Hunc tamen non sustulit Lex Verum necessitas non habet Legem Abi viator caetera memorabunt posteri THE Life and Death OF Sr. JOHN FINCH Baron Foreditch sometimes Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of ENGLAND THE fall of the last great Man so terrified the other Officers of State that the Lord High-treasurer resigned his Staffe to the hands from whence he had it The Lord Cottington forsook the Master-ship of the Court of Wards and the Guardian of the Prince returned him to the King These Lords parting with thir Offices like those that scatter their Jewels and Treasures in the way that they might delude the violence of their greedy pursuers a course that if speedily embraced had not only saved them but the Earl's too so willing was the Earl of B. to have been Lord Treasurer Master Pym Chancellour of the Exchequer Earl of Essex Governour to the Prince Master Hampden Tutor my Lord Say Master of the Wards Master H. Principal Secretary Earl of L. Deputy of Ireland and the Earl of W. Admiral that the Historian writes their Baffle and disappointment in these expectations rendred them Implacable to the Earl and Irreconcileable to any methods of peace and composure and the King's Majesty Declares it What overtures have been made by them they are the words of the Declaration with what importunities for Offices and Preferments what great Services should have been done for him and what other undertakings even to have saved the life of the Earl of Strafford so Cheap a Rate it seems might have saved that excellent Personage Others quitted their Country finding the Faction as greedy of bloud as of preferment loath to trust themselves in that place where reason was guided by force where Votes staid not the ripening and season of Counsel in the order gravity and deliberateness befitting a Parliament but were violently ripped up by barbarous cruelty and forcibly cut out abortive by Popular Riot and Impatience Esteeming it a hardness beyond true valour for a wise man to set himself against the breaking in of the Sea and which is as dreadful the madness of the people which to resist at present threatneth imminent danger but to withdraw gives it space to spread its fury and gains a fitter time to repair the breach Of which honourable number Sir Iohn Finch was one A Person born for Law and Courtship being a Branch of that Family which the Spanish Ambassadour in a discourse with King Iames stiled the Gentile and Obliging House a Family that was inrolled Gentile by the Commissioners appointed to that purpose by King Henry the 6th and which my Lord Bacon called the Lawer's Race At the same time Sir Heneage Finch Recorder of London Sir Henry Finch Sergeant at Law to King Iames and his Son Sir Iohn Finch Atturney General to Queen Mary and Speaker to that curious knowing and rich Parliament wherein some have observed though wide I suppose that the House of Commons modestly estimated consisting of about 500. could buy the House of Peers consisting of 118. thrice over Noremberge in Germany and Florence in Italy would not admit any Learned Men into their Counsels Because Learned Men saith the Historian of those places are perplexed to resolve upon Affaires making many doubts full of respects and imaginations Semblably this Parliament was too rich and curious to do any good Sir Iohn Finch was born September 6. 1582. about one a clock the same night Plowden died the setting of great Lights in one place is their rising in another an observation as carefully Registred by his Father as that is superstitiously kept by the Catholicks That the same day Sir Thomas More died Thomas Stapleton was born Mercury and Venus presaging his two eminent Accomplishments a brave presence and happy eloquence that Indeared and Advanced him being Ascendants in his Horoscope It is considerable in Sir Iohn Fineaux his Country-man that he was 28. years before he Studied the Law that he followed that profession 28. years before he was made a Judge and continued a Judge 28. years before he died And it is remarkable in Sir Iohn that he was 12. years before the sprightliness of his temper and the greatness of his spirit stooping with much ado to the Pedantry of Learning he would learn to Read 12. years before he Studied 12. years more before he either Minded the Law or Practiced it his Genius leading him to Converse rather than Study to Read Men rather than Books more apt for Business than Arguments so much the less sollicitous for the learning of the Law as he was more able to supply the defect of the Pedantick part of it with his skill in the grounds and design of it and to set off that skill with a very plausible faculty of Address and Discourse Those two Endowments that oblige and command the World and have had a great stroke in the erecting and managing all of the Governments in it In the 11th year of his age for men are curious to know even the most minute passages of great and virtuous persons his Father observing his make fitted rather for a Court than a Colledge brought him in a Progress the last Queen Elizabeth made that way to Kiss her Majesties Hand with some thoughts of Inrolling him among the Younger Attendants of her Majesty The Address and Complement he managed so gracefully above his years and beyond expectation that the Gracious Queen asking him whether he was willing to wait upon Her in the capacity those Young Men he saw playing round about him did and he replying that he would never wait on any person but a Queen nor on a Queen onely to Play about her but to serve her that is as the Civil Audience that have always ready a charitable construction for youthful expression interpreted and raised his words he would be an Instrument of State for her Affaires not only one of the number to fill her Retinue commuted his admission to a present Service for his Education to future Employment in words to this effect I have seen my Gardeners Setting Watering and Cherishing Young Plants which possibly may yield fruit and pleasure in the next Age And I love to cherish young ingenuity whose proficiency I shall not live to see but my Successors shall make use of Go go be a man With this incouragement and finding that it was behaviour and discourse that set off all the men in the world when others conned their Parts Lessons and Lectures he acted them weighing little of any Author
the Cause and at last produced the overthrow of all their Priviledges they Locked the Door of the House kept the Key thereof in one of their own Pockets held him then Speaker by strong hands in the Chair till they had thundred out their Votes like dreadful Anathemaes against those that should Levy and what was an higher Rant those that should willingly submit to pay it When they check him for admitting the King's Message and move him to put it to the Vote whether their undutiful and ill-natured Declaration about Tunnage and Poundage and what they called Invasion should be carried to the King or no He craved their Pardon being Ordered expressely by his Majesty to leave the House when it was rather a Hubbub than a Parliament and by the noise they made at the close of each Factious Resolve you would take it to be a Moor-fâ—elds Tumult at a Wrestling rather than a Sober Counsel at a Debate when they kept in the Sergeant of the Mace locked the Door shut out the King's Messenger and made a general Out-cry against the Speaker who when the Parliament was Dissolved drew up such a Declaration as satisfied the People that the ground of this Disturbance was not in this or that States-man that they complained but in their own Burgesses who upon removal of those States-men as Duke of B. c. rather increased than abated their Disorders and such an account of the Seditious Party as vindicated the Honour of the King The Ring-leaders of the Sedition Protesting that they came into the House with as much zeal as any others to serve his Majesty yet finding his Majesty offended humbly desired to be the subjects rather of his Majesties mercy than of his power And the wiser sort of their own side censuring them as Tacitus doth Thraseas Paetus as having used a needless and therefore a foolish Liberty of their Tongues to no purpose Sibi Periculum nec aliis Libertatem When he had done so much to assist the Government in Publick Counsels he was not wanting to it in his Private Affairs so obliging he was to the Countrey by an extraordinary Hospitality so serviceable to King and Countrey by his quick and expedite way in all the Commissions of the Peace c. he was intrusted with So happy and faithful in the management of the Queens Revenue so zealous for the promoting of any Design that advanced either the King's Honour or Service that with the unanimous Choice of King and Kingdom then agreeing in few things else he was preferred Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas in place beneath in profit above the Chief Justice of the King's Bench by the same token that some out of design have quitted that to accept of this amongst whom was Sir Edward Mountague in the Reign of King Hen. 8. who being demanded of his Friends the reason of his self-degradation I am now saith he an old man and love the Kitchin above the Hall the warmest place best suiting my age His Writ so much the King confided in him running not Durante bene placito but Quam diu se bene gesserit and his Preferment owed to his Merit not his Purse being the Iudge to use King Iames's speech of Judge Nichols that would give no money because they onely buy justice that intend to sell it he would take none In that Place he had two seemingly inconsistent qualities a great deal of Patience to attend the opening of a Cause he would say He had the most wakening Evidence from the most dreaming speakers and a quick dispatch of it when opened Insomuch that some thought to see in his time in the Common-Pleas and other Courts where he sate what was seen in Sir Moore 's in the High-Court of Chancery That the Courts should rise because there were no more Causes to be tried in them He was very careful to declare the true grounds of the Law to the King and to dispense the exact Justice of it to the People He observed that those who made Laws not onely desperate but even opposite in terms to Maxims of Government were true friends neither to the Law nor Government Rules of State and Law in a well-ordered Common-wealth mutually supporting each other One Palevizine and Italian Gentleman and Kinsman to Scaliger had in one night all his hair changed from black to gray This Honourable Person immediately upon his Publick Imployment put on a publick Aspect such as he who saw him but once might think him to be all pride whilst they that saw him often knew him to have none So great a place must needs raise Envie but withal so great a spirit must needs overcome it Envie and Fame neither his friend neither his fear being compared by him to Scolds which are silenced onely with silence being out of breath by telling their own tales Seriously and studiously to confute Rumors is to confirm them and breed that suspition we would avoid intimating that reality in the story we would deny His supposed Crimes when Chief Iustice as now and upon my Lord Coventry's death when Lord Keeper hear how satisfactorily he answereth in a Speech he made after leave had to speak in the House of Commons in his own defence where indeed there is the account of his whole Life Mr. Speaker I Give you thanks for granting me admittance to your presence I come not to preserve my self and fortunes but your good Opinion of me For I profess I had rather beg my bread from door to door with Date obolum Ballisario your Favour than be never so high and honourable with your displeasure I came not hither to justifie my Words Actions or Opinions but to open my self freely and then to leave my self to the House What disadvantage it is for a man to speak in his own Cause you well know I had rather another should do it but since this House is not taken with words but with truth which I am best able to deliver I presume to do it my self I come not with a set Speech but with my heart to open my self freely and then to leave it to the House but do desire if any word fall from me that shall be misconstrued I may have leave to explain my self For my Religion I hope no man doubts it I being religiously Educated under Chadderton in Emanuel Colledge thirteen years I have been in Grayes-Inn thirteen years a Bencher and a diligent Hearer of Doctor Sibbs who if he were Living would Testifie that I had my chiefest incouragements from him and though I met with many oppositions from many in that house ill-affected in Religion yet I was always supported by him Five years I have been of the King's Counsel but no Actor Avisor or Inventor of any Project Two places I have been preferred unto Chief Justice and Lord Keeper not by any Suit or Merit of my own but by his Majesties free gift In the discharge of those places my hands have never
touched my eyes have never been blinded with any Reward I never byassed for friendship nor diverted for hatred for all that know me know I was not of a vindicative nature I do not know for what particulars or by what means you are drawn into an ill opinion of me since I had the honour to sit in that place you sit in Master Speaker in which I served you with all fidelity and candor Many witnesses there are of the good Offices I did you and resumed expressions of Thankfulness from this House for it for the last day I had share in it no man expressed more symbols of sorrow than I did After three days Adjournment the King desired me it might be Adjourned for a few days more whether was it then in his Majesty much less in me to Dissolve the House But the King sent for me to Whitehall and gave me a Message to the House and commanded me when I had delivered the Message forthwith to come to him and if a question was offered to be put he charged me upon my Allegiance I should put none I do not speak this as a thing I do now merit by but it is known to divers men and to some Gentlemen of this House All that I say is but to beseech you to consider what you would have done in this strait betwixt the King my Master and this Honourable House The Shipping business lieth heavy upon me I am far from justifying that my opinion if it be contrary to the Judgment of this House I submit I never knew of it at the first or ever advised any other I was made Chief Justice four days before the Writ went out for the Port I was sworn sixteen days after and the Writs Issued forth without my privity The King Commanded the then Chief Justice the now Chief Baron and my self to look on the Presidents and to certifie him our Opinions what we thought of it That if the whole Kingdom were in danger it was reasonable and fit to lay the Charge for the Defence of it upon the whole Kingdom and not upon the Port only And Commanded the then Chief Justice my self and the now Chief Baron to return him our Opinions Our Opinions were and we thought it agreeable to Law and Reason That if the whole were in danger the whole should contribute This was about Iune In Michaelmas following the King but by no Advice of mine Commanded me to go to all the Judges for their Opinions upon the Case and to Charge them upon their Allegiance to deliver their Opinions but this not as a binding opinion to themselves but that upon better consideration or reason they might alter but only for his Majesties satisfaction and that he must keep it to his own private use as I conceive the Judges are bound by their Oaths to do I protest I never used any promise or threats to any but did only leave it to the Law and so did his Majesty desire That no speech that way might move us to deliver any thing contrary to our Consciences There was no Judge that Subscribed needed sollicitations to it there were that Refused Hutton and Crook Crook made no doubt of this thing but of the introduction I am of opinion that when the whole Kingdom is in danger whereof the King is Iudge the danger is to born by the whole Kingdom When the King would have sent to Hutton for his Opinion the then Lord Keeper desired to let him alone and to leave him to himself That was all the ill office he did in that business February 26. upon command from his Majesty by the then Secretary of State the Judges did assemble in Sergeants-Inn where then that opinion was delivered and afterwards was inrolled in the Star-chamber and other Courts at which time I used the best arguments as I could where at that time Crook and Hutton differed in Opinion not of the thing but whether the King was sole Judge Fifteen months from the first they all Subscribed and it was Registred in the Star-chamber and other Courts The reason why Crook and Hutton Subscribed was because they were over-ruled by the greater number This was all I did till I came to my Argument in the Exchequer where I argued the Case I need not tell you what my Arguments were they are publick about the Town I delivered my self then as free as any that the King ought to Govern by the positive Laws of the kingdom and not alter but by consent of the Parliament and that if he made use of it as a Revenue or otherwise that this judgement could not hold him but never declared that money should be raised I heard you had some hard opinion of me about this secret business it was far from my business and occasions but in Mr. 〈…〉 absence I went to the Justice-seat when I came there I did both King and Commonwealth good service which I did with extream danger to my self and fortunes left it a thing as advantageous to the Commonwealth as any thing else I never went about to overthrow the Charter of the Forrest but held it a sacred thing and ought to be maintained both for the King and People Two Judges then were that held the King by the common-Common-law might make a Forrest where he would when I came to be Judge I declared my Opinion to the contrary that the King was restrained and had no power to make a Forrest but in his own Demesn lands I know that there is something laid upon me touching the Declaration that came out the last Parliament it is the King's affair and I am bound without his Licence not to disclose it but I hope I shall obtain leave of his Majesty and then I shall make it appear that in this thing I have not deserved your disfavours and will give good satisfaction in any thing I know that you are wise and that you will not strain things to the uttermost sence to hurt me God did not call David a man after his own heart because he had no failings but because his heart was right with God I conclude all this That if I must not live to serve you I desire I may dye in your good opinion and favour A Speech so franck and clear that it might have removed all suspition so pathetick that it might have melted cruelty into compassion so humbly and submissively managed that they could not but pity him who were resolved to destroy him weeping at the pronouncing of it and when it was over Hyena and Crocodile-like shedding tears and bloud in an instant that day Voting the Author a Traitor and without any regard to the honour of his place and trust the reverence of his years the strictness of his profession and life the many services he did that party of whom he was reckoned one and the many favours he received from them the extent of his charity and the exemplariness of his devotion employ their common Messengers to take
him though he either upon his friends intimation or his own observation of the danger he was in among those who are prone to insult most when they have objects and opportunities most capable of their rudeness and petulancy escaped in a disguise wearing a Vizard lawfully to save himself as others did then to destroy him and the kingdom that night or next morning betimes in a Skuller the Sea being less tempestuous than the Law to Holland where he safely heard himself charged with High-treason in four particulars 1. For not Reading as the Faction would have him the Libell Sir Iohn Clue drew up against the Lord Treasurer Weston in the Parliament 4. Caroli 2. For threatning the Judges in the matter of Ship-money 3. For his judgment in the Forrest business when he was Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas 4. For drawing the Declaration after the Dissolution of the last Parliament And staid so long until he saw 1. The whole Plot he indeavoured to obviate in the buds of it ripened to as horrid a Rebellion as ever the Sun saw 2. The Charges against Buckingham Weston Strafford himself c. ending in a Charge against the King himself whose Head he would always affirm was aimed at through their sides 3. The great grievance of an 120000l in the legal way of Ship-money redressed and eased by being commuted for a burden of 60. millions paid in the Usurped ways of Assessements Contribution Loans Venturing Publick Faith Weekly Meals the Pay of the three Armies Sequestrations Decimations those Bells and Dragons of the Wealth and plenty of England 4. The great fear that the King would make a great part of the kingdom Forrests turned into greater that the Conspirators would have the whole kingdom into a Wilderness 5. And the Declaration he drew about the evil Complexion of the last Parliament made good with advantage by the unheard of and horrid outrages of this In a word he lived to see the Seditious act far worse things against the King and kingdom than his very fear and foresight suspected of them though he gave shreud hints and guesses And to see God do more for the King and kingdom than his hope could expect for he saw the horrid Murder of Charles I. and the happy Restauration of Charles II. enduring eight years Banishment several months Confinement and Compositions amounting to 7000l THE Life and Death OF Sr FRANCIS VVINDEBANK WHEN neither sincerity in Religion which he observed severely in private and practised exemplarily in publick nor good affections to the Liberties of the Subject in whose behalf he would ever and anon take occasion to Address himself to his Majesty to this purpose Your poor Subjects in all humbleness assure your Majesty that their greatest confidence is and ever must be in your grace and goodness without which they well know nothing that they can frame or desire will be of safety or value to them Therefore are all humble Suiters to your Majesty that your Royal heart will graciously accept and believe the truth of theirs which they humbly pretend as full of truth and confidence in your Royal Word and Promise as ever People reposed in any of their best Kings Far from their intentions it is any way to incroach upon your Soveraignty or Prerogative nor have they the least thought of stretching or enlarging the former Laws in any sort by any new interpretations or additions The bounds of their desires extend no further than to some necessary explanation of that which is truly comprehended within the just sence and meaning of those Laws with some moderate provision for execution and performance as in times past upon like occasion hath been used They humbly assure Your Majesty they will neither loose time nor seek any thing of your Majesty but that they hope may be fit for dutyful and Loyal Subjects to ask and for a Gracious and Iust King to grant When neither the Services he performed in publick not the Intercessions he made in private in behalf of the People of England could save so well-affected religious able active publick-spirited charitable and munificent a Person as Sir Iohn Finch Baron Finch of Foreditch It s no wonder Sir Francis Windebank was loath to hazzard his life in a scuffle with an undisciplined Rabble which he freely offered to be examined by any free and impartial Courts of Justice where the multitude should receive Laws and not give them and reason should set bounds to passion truth to pretences Lawes duly executed to disorders and charity to fears and jealousies when the sacredness of some great Personages and the honour of others when the best Protestants and the best Subjects were equally obnoxious to the undistinguished Tumults which cried out against Popery and Ill-counsel but struck at all men in power and favour Sir Francis rather ashamed than afraid to see the lives and honours of the most eminent persons in the Nation exposed to those rude Assemblies where not reason was used as to men to perswade but force and terror as to beasts to drive and compel to whatsoever tumultuary Patrons shall project left the kingdom as unsafe where Factions were more powerful than Laws and persons chose rather to hear than to see the miseries and reproaches of their Country waiting for an Ebbe to follow that dreadful and swelling Tide upon this Maxime That the first indignation of a mutinous multitude is most fierce and a small delay breaks their consent and innocence would have a more candid censure if at all at distance Leave he did his place and preferment like those that scatter their Treasure and Jewels in the way that they might delude the violence of their greedy pursuers troubled for nothing more than that the King was the while left naked of the faithful ministry of his dearest Servants and exposed to the infusions and informations of those who were either complices or mercenaries to the Faction to whom they discovered his most Private Counsels Those aspersions laid upon him by those that spoke rather what they wished than what they believed or knew he would say should like clouds vanish while his reputation like the Sun a little muffled at present recovered by degrees its former and usual luster Time his common saying sets all well again And time at last did make it evident to the world that though he and others might be subject to some miscarriages yet such as were far more repairable by second and better thoughts than those enorminous extravagancies wherewith some men have now even wildred and almost quite lost both Church and State The event of things at last demonstrating that had the King followed the worst counsels that could have been offered him Church and State could not have been brought into that condition they were presently in upon the pretended Reformation Among the many ill consequences whereof this was not the least remarkable viz. that those very slanderers reputation and credit I mean that little
Bruerton by Will bequeathed to Sidney Colledge well nigh three thousand pounds but for haste or some other accident it was so imperfectly done that as Doctor Samuel VVard informed me it was invalid in the rigour of the Law Now Judge Bramston who married the Serjeant's Widdow gave himself much trouble gave himself indeed doing all things gratis for the speedy payment of the money to a farthing and the legal settling thereof on the Colledge according to the true intention of the dead He deserved to live in better times The delivering his judgement on the King's side in the case of Ship-money cost him much trouble and brought him much honour as who understood the consequence of that Maxime Salus populi suprema lex and that Ship-money was thought legal by the best Lawyers Voted down Arbitrarily by the worst Parliament they hearing no Council for it though the King heard all men willingly against it Yea that Parliament thought themselves not secure from it unless the King renounced his right to it by a new Act of his own Men have a touch-stone to try gold and gold is the touch-stone to try men Sir Noy's gratuity shewed that this Judges inclination was as much above corruption as his fortune and that he would not as well he needed not be base Equally intent was he upon the Interest of State and Maxims of Law as which mutually supported each other He would never have a witness interrupted or helped but have the patience to hear a naked though a tedious truth the best Gold lieth in the most Ore and the clearest truth in the most simple discourse When he put on his Robes he put off respects his private affections being swallowed up in the publick service This was the Judge whom Popularity could never flatter to any thing unsafe nor Favour oblige to any thing unjust Therefore he died in peace 1645 when all others were engaged in a War and shall have the reward of his integrity of the Judge of Judges at the great Assize of the World Having lived as well as read Iustinian 's Maxim to the Praetor of Laconia All things which appertain to the well-government of a State are ordered by the Constitution of Kings that give life and vigour to the Law Whereupon who so would walk wisely shall never fail if he propose them both for the rule of his actions For a King is the living Law of his Countrey Nothing troubled him so much as shall I call it the shame or the fear of the consequence of the unhappy Contest between His Excellent Majesty and his meaner Subjects in the foresaid case of Ship-money No enemy being contemptible enough to be despised since the most despicable command greater strength wisdom and interest than their own to the designs of malice or mischief A great man managed a quarrel with Archee the King's Fool but by endeavouring to explode him the Court rendred him at last so considerable by calling the enemies of that person who were not a few to his rescue as the fellow was not onely able to continue the dispute for divers years but received such encouragement from standers by the instrument of whose malice he was as he oft broke out into such reproaches as neither the Dignity of that excellent person's Calling nor the greatness of his Parts could in reason or manners admit But that the wise man discerned that all the Fool did was but a symptome of the strong and inveterate distemper raised long since in the hearts of his Countreymen against the great man's Person and Function This Reverend Judge who when Reader of the Temple carried away the title of the best Lawyer of his time in England and when made Serjeant with fifteen more of whom the Lord Keeper Williams said That he reckoned it one of the Honours of his time that he had passed Writs for the advancement of so many excellent persons Anno 29. Iac. Termino Michaelii had the character of The fairest pleader in England Westminster-Hall was much envied by the Faction upon the same ground that Scaevola was quarrelled with by Fimbria even because totum telum in se recipere he did not give malice a free scope and advantage against him who when the Writ for Ship-money grounded upon unquestionable Presidents and Records for levying Naval Aids by the King 's sole Authority were put in execution and Hambden and Say went to Law with the King the one for four pound two shillings the other for three pound five shilling The inconsiderable summes they were assessed at to the Aid aforesaid went no further than upon this Case put by the King Charles Rex WHen the good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned and the whole kingdom in danger whether may not the King by Writ under the Great Seal of England Command all his Subjects in the kingdom at their Charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victuals and Ammunition and for such time as he shall think fit for the defence and safeguard of the kingdom from such danger and peril and by Law compel the doing thereof in case of refusal or refractoriness and whether in such cases is not the King the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided To declare his opinion thus MAy it please your most Excellent Majesty we have according to your Majesties Command severally and every man by himself and all of us together taken into our serious consideration the Case and Questions Signed by your Majesty and inclosed in your Letter And we are of opinion That when the good and safety of the kingdom in general is concerned and the whole kingdom in danger your Majesty may by Writ under your Great Seal of England Command all the Subjects of this your kingdom at their Charge to provide and furnish such number of Ships with Men Victual Munition and for such time as your Majesty shall think fit for the defence and safeguard of the kingdom from such peril and danger and that by Law your Majesty may compel the doing thereof in case of refusal or refractoriness And we are also of opinion that in such case your Majesty is the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided Iohn Bramston Richard Hutton George Vernon Iohn Finch Willam Iones Robert Barkley Humphrey Davenport George Crook Francis Crauly Iohn Denham Thomas Trever Richard Weston And afterwards in the Lord Says Case Ter. Hil. Anno 14. Car. Regis in Banco regis with Iones and Berkley to declare That the foresaid Writ being allowed legal the judgment of the Judges upon it consisting of four branches First That the Writ was legal by the King's Prerogative or at leastwise by his Regal power Secondly That the Sheriff by himself without any Jury may make the Assessement Thirdly That the Inland Counties ought to do it at their own Charge and
in at his throat with a Musket-bullet and out at his back whereof indeed he fell but would not die until the Enemy over-powering his men each of whom inspired by his example now as by his command before was a Berkley the Sun setting each little star appears and had like him the art of incountring but not of escaping took the Ship not till two hours after his fall when his brave Soul scorning to be a prisoner to the Dutch and to his own body too left him just as the Enemies came and took him He never spoke after this unhappy shot but his look did which from his eye dispersed as much valour as he did before with his hand fresh Orders issuing still from his aspect which a man looked on and vowed either a brave revenge or as brave a death either what the dying Captain aimed at Victory or what he enjoyed Honour The Ship the Swiftsure with so many men and Guns and so good a sailer as she was of the second Rate was a great prize to the Hollanders but this person a greater though dead the Honourable Carcase being of so great a value and if the Cabinet was so rich what was the Jewel that the States paid for it the old value of a Province and thought to demand for it the liberty of a whole Fleet of prisoners Great was the respect they gave him in their care to embalm and lay him in State in the great Church at the Hague proud it seems of their enemy where as many came to see him now dead as feared him before the throng now standing before his corps but tremblingly as before they did before his person Greater was the Honour of their Reasons for that respect viz. to use their own words For the Dignity of his Person the Greatness of his Command and the Renown of his Valour and Conduct Greatest of all was the esteem they seemed to have of him when they thought him a present fit to oblige His Majesty of Great Brittain at that time when they were most to seek for some effectual way of addressing themselves to him in order to an accommodation as they sent him Aug. 23. 1666. with Honour enough certainly since Sir Berkley's Body was the greatest Present the High and Mighty States could send and the onely kindness the most Puissant and Sacred Majesty of the King of Great Brittain would at that time accept at their hands TO enbalm him then were vain when spreading Fame Supplies the want of Spices where the name Its self preserving may for Ointment pass And he still seen lye coffin'd as in glass While thus his Bud's full Flower and his sole Beginning doth reproach anothers whole Coming so perfect up that there must needs Have been found out new Titles for new Deeds Though Youth and Laws forbid which will not let Statues be raised or he stand Brazen yet Our minds retain this Royalty of Kings Not to be bound to time but Judge of things And worship as they merit there we do Place him at height and he stands Golden too Sir HENRY BERKLEY THis Gentleman was well known for his Ancient and Honourable Family his good Education his great Observations and Experience his famous Hospitality his rich and happy Tenants and Dependants whereof he carried 500 to the Kings side the orderly Government of his Family where as it is said of Theodosius his Court-Votaries themselves might learn Discipline the exemplariness of his Devotion honouring God as sincerely as God had graciously honoured him the plainness of his temper his word being parchment and his very yea an obligation the humility of spirit which made him like a fixed Star the higher he was the less he seemed his Zeal for the Church both as Patriot Patron and Parishioner his word was All the service I can do I will do for Gods Church for all the comfort I look for I hope for in Gods Church his serviceableness in the Countrey in all publick Capacity that found him out deciding an hundred controversies at a cheaper rate in his Hall than one is ended at Westminster keep up he did indeed the Authority of the Law Order and good Government but cavils and brawls he discountenanced that reputation that was the result of all these Vertues enabled him to do so much towards the assistance of his Dread Soveraign now cheated of all the Supports and Ornaments of Government but those Subjects hearts who when the King had yeelded all that in reason could be expected from him ventured Lives and Fortunes rather than he should do as Hampden said when he was asked what they would have the King do more answered Throw himself and all his concernments upon our good affections In good time Kings are intrusted by the great Governour of the World in a way of deputation and by the Inhabitants of the World in a way of consent with the Lives Liberties and Estates of all their Subjects and those Kings shall intrust themselves and all their charge back again with the worst of those Subjects as with Sir Iohn Stowel Sir Ralph Hopton and the Lord Pawlet to help the Marquess of Hertford to the first Army that was able to face potent and successful Rebellion and clear Somerset-shire and Dorset-shire of it until the Loyal Party was besieged in Sherburne many weeks in which time to borrow the words of their own Historian May Many Sallies were made out of that Garrison and sharp Encounters performed with great courage the Parliament side so he calleth the Faction being in firm hope to have taken them at last which was conceived a thing of great moment and advantage to their affairs if they could have possessed the persons of so many men considerable both in their Persons and Valour and who mark it proved afterwards very strong and cruel Enemies yet saith he that hope was frustrate for about the beginning of October they all escaped out of Sherburne The Earl nevertheless pursued after them and in the chase took Mr. Pallart Sir Henry Sir Iohn and Sir Charles Berkley Prisoners and in them as they imagined the strength of the Kings Cause in those parts The good old Gentleman Sir Henry being neither consined in his affections nor yet disabled in his Estate attendeth that Cause with considerable supplies that he could not wait on in person 1. With that zeal Amilcar made his son Hannibal swear at thirteen to be an irreconcileable enemy of Rome engaging all his sons to a constant service against the Conspiracy upon the blessing of a father obliging them to serve the Father of their Countrey usually saying That in vain did they look for an Estate from him unless they could be protected in that Estate by the King and the Laws There was nothing more usual since the faction raised tumults and reduced and listed those tumults into Armies to force the King to that which they despaired with reason to convince him of but they endeavoured to cant most of his
Subjects out of their Loyalty and against that artifice it was observable what advantage His Majesty had on his side for whereas the combination was forced to flie to the shifts of some pretended fears and wild fundamentals of State with the impertinent as well as dangerous allegation of self-defence since they who should have been Subjects were manifestly the first assaulters of the King and the Laws first by unsuppressed tumults and then by listed Forces His Loyal Subjects had the Word of God the Laws of the Land together with their own Oaths requiring obedience to the Kings just Command but to none other under heaven without or against him in the point of raising armes And those that would not be juggled out of their duty they indeavoured to disgrace out of a capacity of an effectual performance of it by a bold and notorious falsehood viz. That there was not one godly man with the King and as God would have it most of the eminent men in this County for his Majesty were in as much repute with the people before the war for their piety by the same token that notwithstanding the partiality and the popular heats wherewith the elections to that Parliament 1640. were carried in many places most of them were Members of that Parliament as they were after in disgrace with the Rabble for their Loyalty For to avoid a scandal upon the Kings government and the individious consequences of maintaining too stiffly even a just Liberty upon the Lords day We find Orders drawn up and sent in a Petition to the Kings Majesty by Iohn Harrington Esq. Custos Rotulorum to be delivered by the Earl of Pembroke Lord Lieutenant of that County To the first of which we find subscribed George Sydenam Knight Henry Berkley Knight And to the second Iohn Lord Pawlet Iohn Stawell Ralph Hopton Francis Doddington As severe though not so fantastical in that point as the very Precisians themselves for these are their words May it please your Majesty to grant us some particular Declaration against unlawful Assemblies of Church-Ales Clearks-Ales and Bid-Ales and other intollerable disorders to the great contempt of Authority and to uphold civil feasting between neighbour and neighbour in their houses and the orderly and seasonable use of manly exercises and activities which we shall be most ready to maintain an even moderation between prophanness and nicety between a licentiousness to do any thing and a liberty to do nothing at all In which temper after unsufferable Imprisonments rude Robberies called after the Germane Mode Plunder from planum facere to level or plane all to nothing or pluming unheard of Sequestrations and at last with much ado a Composition or paying as we do sometimes Highway-men for his own estate which besides the vast charge he was at to have the favour of that Oppression amounted to 1275 l. 00 00 For this is Recorded Sir Henry Berkley of Tarlington in Sommersetshire 1275 l. 00 00 He died Anno Christi 165 ... Aetatis 7 ... Tyrannidis 4. Being buried not without hope of his own and his causes resurrection Hic Decios Agnosce tuos magnae aemula Romae Aut Prior hac aut te his Scotia major adhuc Unus Turma fuit Barclaius copia solus Una cum natis Agminis Instar erat Sir VVILLIAM BERKLEY TO all these I could adde Sir William Berkley whose Man was Governor of Virginia in the late times when Princes were forced to go a Foot and Servants Ride on Horse-back and he himself in these when there have been made such orders for the improvement of the Plantation as are inferior only to the rules given him for the first erection of it which yet were none of the strictest for otherwise as Infants must be swathed not laced so young Plantations will never grow if streightned with as hard Laws as setled Common-wealths though they proved the most effectual those people giving no reason for that bitter rather than false jest spoken of one of our late Western Plantations consisting most of dissolute people Christian Savages among the Pagan Negroes That it was very like unto England as being spit out of the very Mouth of it This Gentleman aiming at two things that may do much good and that is 1. Justice in Dealings witness the brave Edicts made at a Convention there 1662. That their dealings among the Negroes there may be as naked as their going 2. A Sober Religion that may bless the Christians there and convert the Heathens in one of whom it is more to overcome Paganism than to master an 100 Pagans witness the very reasonable Proposals made both for the supporting and propagating of Religion in that Country for the maintenance of their Ministers and the discipline of their Church to the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert then Lord Bishop of London and since Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury who encouraged the prudential part of their design in a way of great incouragement to the present generation and of great blessing to posterity Sir EDWARD BERKLEY ANd from him it were pity to part his inseparable companion in Loyalty and Sufferings Sir Edward Berkley that living confutation of Machiavell who thought religion spoiled a generous person as bad as a Shower of Rain doth his Plume of Feathers on a rainy day being at once most pious and most gallant of as much humble devotion as generous and daring valour as meek towards God as he was brave towards an enemy very well known for the hardness of his body and more honored for the generosity of his mind First he learned to follow others and afterwards to command himself being so much the more happy in his providence forward as had he gone farther in his experience backward being as knowing himself as he was happy in commanding others that were so Extreamly careful of his first enterprizes knowing that a Commanders reputation once raised will keep its self up like a round body some force is required to set it up though when it is up it will move its self Three things he abhorred in his followers 1. Scoffing at Religion a sin unusual never a civil Nation in the world being guilty of it 2. Useless for either the scoffer believes what he scoffs at and so he puts a great affront upon his conscience or he doth not and then it s in vain to cry down that Religion with raillery that is supported so much by demonstration And 3. Debauchery being of Gustavus Adolphus that true Souldier as well as great Kings temper Who when he first entred Germany and perceived how many women followed his Camp some being Wives for which they wanted nothing but Marriage others Laundresses though defiling more than they washed At a Passage over a River ordered the Bridge to be taken down that these feminine impediments might not follow as soon as his Souldiers were over Whereupon they made such pannick shreeks as seized the Souldiers hearts on the other side the River who
and bodily pain that the Soul may have time to call its self to a just account of all things past by means whereof repentance is perfected patience is exercised the Joys of Heaven are leisurely represented the pleasures of sin and the vanities of the world are with sound judgement censured Charity hath time to look out fit objects and Prudence to dispose of a mans Estate besides that the nearer we draw to God the more we are oftentimes enlightned with the shining beams of his glorious Presence as being then even almost in sight a leisurable departure may in that case bring forth for the good of them that are present that which will cause them for ever after from the bottom of their hearts to pray Oh let us die the death of the Righteous and let our last end be like theirs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. that is We must all the days of our appointed time wait until our change shall come according to Tertullians Character of the Christians in his time who saith they were expeditum morti genus It was a good resolution of the holy man that was resolved to repent a day before he died and because he was uncertain when he should die repented every day It is reported of Archias by Plutarch that having by fraudulent and unjust courses at length compassed the Government of Thebes he with his Complices kept a riotous Feast when in the midst of his Intemperance a Messenger cometh to him with a Letter from a Friend importuning him speedily to peruse it and he slighting the Admonition and putting it under his Pillow said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Serious things to morrow when as the thing which the Letter concerned was effected that night viz. he died in the midst of his cups It was the policy of Iulius Caesar never to acquaint his Army before-hand with the time of their march ut paratum exercitum momenti omnibus quo vellet educeret We suppose this Gentleman who hath given occasion for this meditation is the Arthur Trevor of the Inner-Temple Esq that Compounded for 05461. 09s 08d They are golden words of a precious man Mentis aureae verba Bracteato I have often prayed that on my side might joyn true Piety with the sense of their Loyalty and be as faithful to God and their own souls as they were to me that the effects of one might not blast the endeavor of the other Sir RICHARD WESTON TO Baron Trevor we might add Baron Weston who was inseparable from him in opinion and would have been so in suffering but that he was called to give an account of himself to God when others were so haled to give an account of themselves to men When we read that Sir Richard Weston died in Trinity Term the fourteenth year of King Charls the First 's Reign 1638 9. with the Character in a grave Reporter of a very Learned Judicious Couragious and Patient man in all his Proceedings and afterward read in the Chronicle of Articles and Impeachment against Sir Iohn Brampston Sir Humphrey Davenport Sir Thomas Trevor Sir Francis Crawley and Sir Richard Weston in Easter Term 17 Carol. I. 1641. We are put in minde of one Archbishop six Bishops and eight Doctors going solemnly to Cambridge to excommunicate the bones of an Heretick that dyed some years before malice would not end where life doth but extend its self to the grave and reach to the other world There were three famous Men of this Name whereof one read as much as the other two remembred practised Sir Francis Weston who preceded him in qualification as well as in place and he had a good Rule viz. That private men should take care to do no wrong themselves but publick men that others under them should do none We have done with our Judges save one we mean Sir Francis Crawley who is reserved for his proper place where we hope the Reader shall finde an exact account of him from his reverend Son Dr. Crawley the learned meek charitable bountiful and religious Rector of Agmondsham in Buckingham-shire who quitted his Fellowship at Trinity for his Allegiance as his Father quitted his Office onely be it remembred that what these Confessors for Law lost by refusing to continue under an usurped Power on the Bench they gained by private Practise in their Chambers the people willingly trusting their Estates in those Worthy Persons hands with whom the King had instrusted the Law being confident of their faithfulness to them who had approved themselves so faithful to their Soveraign And that they would not wrest the Law who suffered so much rather than betray it It is observed that when Sir Iohn Cary Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Richard the Seconds time lost his estate for being that unfortunate Kings Champion at Law his Son Sir Robert Cary had it intirely restored to him for being King Henry the Fifths Champion at Armes For a Knight Errant of Arragon coming into England challenging any to Tilt with him was undertaken by this Sir Robert and overcome for which Sir Robert had that Estate from Henry the Fifth which his Father was adjudged to have forfeited to Henry the Fourth And its observable that whatever any of these Judges lost to the Parliament their Sons and Relations repaired again with the King the Sword making amends for the damages of the Gown the Young Set of Loyalists fighting against that phrenzy which the Elder in vain pleaded against But we had almost forgot Sir Humphrey Davenport that man of memory who to his dying day had the old Year-books and Reports ad ungues but remembred no new ones as Beza when above fourscore could perfectly say by heart any Greek Chapter in St. Pauls Epistles or any thing which he had learned long before but forgot whatsoever was newly told him His memory like an Inn retaining Old Guests but affording no room to entertain New It is pity that he that kept the exact date of every eminent Lawyer in his own time should want an exact account of his own He was Born in Cheshire where are 1. The Most 2. The most Ancient 3. The most Loyal 4. The most Hospitable Gentry in England Iuly 7. 1584. the same day that his Father and Mother died both together within a quarter of one another When my Father and my Mother forsake me for want of natural affection to pity me for want of wisdom not knowing what to do with me for want of power not able to help me or by death being forced to leave me The gracious God that when a Father forgets his bowels cannot forget his love which is his own nature The All-wise God that when we are at a loss ordereth all things by the eternal Counsel of his Will The Almighty God that when we are weak doth whatsoever he pleaseth in Heaven and Earth The Immortal God that Inhabiteth Eternity that when Friends are gone will never leave us never forsake us This Lord will take
of the Right of calling Assemblies on Numbers 10. 12. nor chosen by the Clergy and because there was a legal Convocation in being that superseded this Illegal Assembly wherein it was in vain for few Oxthodox men to appear being overvoted by their numerous Antagonists But since he could not serve the King and Church with his parts he did with his Interest chearfully sending the Colledge Plate to the King and zealously when the Committee of the Eastern Association was setled there protesting against any Contribution to the Parliament as against true Religion and a good Conscience for which he was Imprisoned Plundered and tormented and as high winds bring some men to sleep so these storms brought this good Doctor to rest whose dying words as if the cause of his Martyrdom had been Ingraven on his heart breathed up with his Divine Soul Now God bless the King though the worst word that came out of his mouth was to Cromwell That when they destroyed the Church Windows you might be better Imployed A Pupil of his compares him and Dr. Collings Professor to Peter and Iohn running to our Saviors Grave in which race Iohn came first as the youngest and swiftest and Peter entred into the Grave Dr. Collings had much the speed of him in quickness of parts the other pierceth the deeper into under-ground and deep points of Divinity neither was the Influence either of Loyalty or Sufferings confined to his own Person but was effectual upon all his Relations for we finde Richard Ward of London Gentleman Compounding for 0234 l. 00 00 And Henry Ward for 0105 l. 00 00 Besides Mr. Seth Ward the Ornament not only of his Family but of his Countrey expelled Sidney Colledge for his Loyalty tossed up and down for his Allegiance till his incomparable temper and carriage recommended him to the Family of my Lord Weinman at Thame-Parke in Oxfordshire his great skill in Mathematicks opened his way in those sad times to the Astronomy Professorship in Oxford they thought there would be no danger in his abstracted and unconcerned discourses of the Mathematicks his extraordinary worth commanded Respect and Incouragement from Worthy men of all perswasions excepting O. C. who told him when he stood for the Principality of Iesus Colledge in Oxford That he heard he was a deserving Person but withall a Malignant his great Ability especially for Discourse and Business commended him to the Deanery first and afterwards to the Bishoprick of Exeter no Imployment a Clergy-man ever was capable of being above his capacity who writes to the eternal honor of this Doctor his Unkle in the Preface to his Lectures set out with Bishop Brownrigg's his Overseers consent and Dr. Ward Mr. Hodges Mr. Mathewes and Mr. Gibsons pains thus Ille me puerum quandeconnem a Schola privata ubi me tune aegre habui ad Academiam vocavit ille me valetudinarium recreare solitus est omni modo refocillore ille mihi animum ad studia ad motis lenitur Calcáribus praemiisque ante oculos positis accendere solebat ille mihi Librorum usum suppeditavit ille me in Collegii Societatem quam primum Licebat cooplavit ille mihi Magister unicus erat Patronus Spes Ratio studiorum With whole words we will finish this poor account of him whose worth might be guessed by the method of his Study the exactness of his Diary the excellency of his Lectures Novit haec omnia Collegium Sidneianum cui plus quam 30 annorum spatio summa cum prudentiae Integritatis sanctitatis Laude praefuit novit atque admirata est Academia Cantabrigientis ubi Cathedram Professoram D. Margarete tot annos summo cum honore tenuit errorum malleus atque hâ—resum norunt Exteri testantur haec opera quae nunc Edimus ista certe ut non nescires tui meique interesse existam abam caetera norunt Et Tagu Ganges forsan Antipodes Here after these Noble and Loval Ushers comes in the King himself not the exact time he was beheaded on but yet the very minute he suffered for though Charles was Martyred 1648. the King was killed 1644. For it is not the last blow that fells the Oak besides that the lifting up of some hands in the Covenant now inforced was to strike at his life according to the most refined sense of that solemn snare declared by Sir Henry Vane who best understood it having been in Scotland at the contrivance of it at his death Iune 14. when he was most likely to speak sincerely what he understood His Person was in danger when they aimed at his Prerogative The Conclusion is to a discerning person wrapped up in the premises for I reckon his life was in danger when their was nothing left him but his life to lose The Life Reign and Death of the Glorious Martyr CHARLES I. of Blessed Memory I May Praeface this sad Solemnity as the Romans did their more joyful ones that were to be seen but once in an hundred years Come and see what none that is alive ever saw none that is alive is ever like to see again See a King and all Government falling at one stroke A Prince once wished that his People had but one Neck that he might cut them off at one blow here the People saw all Princes with one Neck which they cut at one attempt a stroke levelled not at one King but Monarchy not at one Royal Person but Government See England that boasted of the first Christian King Lucius the first Christian Emperour Constantine the first Protestant Prince Edw. 6. glorieth now in the first Martyr'd King Charles I. A Martyr to Religion and Government The Primitive Institutes of the first of which and the generally owned Principles of the second of which other Princes have maintained with their Subjects blood he with his own Others by Laws and Power kept up both these while they were able he with his Life when he was not able supporting that very Authority it self that supports other Princes throwing himself the great Sacrifice into the breach made upon Power to stop popular fury and choosing rather not to be himself in the World than to yield that that World by his consent should be Lawless or Prophane A Martyr who stood to the Peoples Liberty though with his own Captivity that held up their Rights with the loss of his own had a care of their Posterity with the ruine of his own Family that maintained the Law that secures their lives with his own that could suffer others to distress him but not to oppress his People that could yield to dye but not to betray his Subjects either as Christians or as Englishmen See the last Effort of Virtue Reason Discipline Order bearing up against that of Villany Disorder Licenciousness and things not to be named among men See a King that had deserved a Crown in all mens judgement had he not worn one that other Nations wished theirs
equal the greatness of your power That we who are the Servants to the great and mighty God may hand in hand triumph in the glory which this action presents unto us Now because the Islands which you govern have been very famous for the unconquered strength of their shipping I have sent this my trusty Servant and Embassadour to know whether in your Princely Wisdom you shall think fit to assist me with such forces by Sea as shall be answerable to those I provide by Land which if you please to grant I doubt not but the Lord of Hosts will protect and assist those that fight in so glorious a cause Nor ought you to think this strange that I who much reverence the peace and accord of Nations should exhort to a War Your great Prophet Christ Iesus was the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah as well as the Lord and giver of Peace must always appear with the terrour of his Sword and wading through Seas of blood must arrive to tranquillity This made James your Father of glorious memory so happily renowned amongst all Nations It was the noble fame of your Princely vertues which resounds to the utmost corners of the Earth that perswaded me to invite you to partake of that blessing wherein I boast my self most happy I wish God may heap riches of his blessings on you increase your happiness with your daies and hereafter perpetuate the greatness of your name in all Ages Virtues that had they been sweetned with little circumstances such as theirs are who observe some minute wayes of obliging and not reall solid and grand actions had pleased the world while he lived as they astonished it since he was dead he aimed at the general good of the Commonwealth and therefore he was not carefull to be plausible to particular persons verifying that maxime That Ordinary Princes are applauded but Heroick ones not understood Virtues that make it an Impertinence to tell the world that he was temperate eating for health not luxury and drinking wine mingled with water excepting when he eat Venison concluding the greatest entertainment with a glass of water beer and wine seldome drinking between meals that his Recreations were manly and sober Chesse Books Limning excellent Discourse and Hunting being the most usuall of them and that his private converse was free and ingenious witness his answer to a Presbiterian Minister who inquired for Captain Titus a person very well-deserving of him and his son that he wondred after so unhappy a discourse about Timothy he would look for Titus these being the inconsiderable Circumstances of his great goodness VIII A King so religious that his devotion in the Church when young was equal to his gallantry at Court his mind being no more softned and debauched by his fortune than his body a devotion not Popular nor Pompous but sollid and secret filling his Soul as God doth the world silently his Soul being wrapped up in his Prayer not to be disturbed either by the best or worst accident that could happen A Devotion to which he made his pleasure witness his constant calling for Prayers before Hunting though before day and his business witness his ordering of Prayers to be made to God before he Ingaged the Rebels at Brentford valuing his duty before his safety whereupon his private Prayers in restraint were admired by his Enemies and his constant attendance on and hast to Divine Service whereever he was by his friends At Bishop Lauds request he came to Church in the beginning of Divine Service to prevent any interuption might happen in the publick Devotion and of his own accord he continued to the end to avoid all Contempt of it Where his eye was in the beginning of Sermon there it was in the end his attendance edifying as much by the Example as the Preacher did by his Doctrine The established way of the Church of England was his profession not so much by Education as by Choice not as a profession he liked but understood the best in the world Nothing more usuall than to defame him and others for Inclination to Popery for to the great shame of our Profession and honour of the Roman all the Reason Order Discipline Laws and Religion that was in the world was then reckoned Popish and yet nothing rendred him a more conspicuous Protestant than the late Rebellion wherein besides his Constancy in Spain against the temptations of that Court the sollicitations of the Pope and the restless Importunities of Priests and Fryers he added these Arguments of his sincerity in Religion viz. That in his private Indearments to the Queen when he had most need of her assistance he saith Religion was the only thing in difference between them And in his Legacy to his Children he bequeatheth them not only Bishop Andrews Sermons and Mr. Hookers Policy that might confirm them in the Doctrine and Discipline of our Church but Arch-bishop Lauds book against Fisher the greatest and strongest Argument and Antidote against the Romists insomuch that if the faction had not overthrown his Government the Papists as appears by Habernefields discovery had ruined his Person as afterwards many of them obstructed his Restauration and his Sons for no other reason but that he was Heir of his Fathers Faith as well as his Throne Religion had the whole power of his soul as he should have had of his subjects whom he desired no further subject to him than he was to God How tender his Conscience that was resolved as he injoyned the most Reverend Father in God G. now Arch-bishop of Canterbury then his Chaplain if ever he saw him in prosperity to put him in mind of it to do publick Pennance for consenting to the E. of Strafford's death a deep sence of which action went with him to his grave and to the injuries done the Church in England and Scotland How careful his heart in that when the Commissioners at the Isle of Wight urged him to allow the lesser Catechism of the Assembly that being they said but a small matter he said Though it seem to you a small matter yet I had rather part with the choicest flower in my Crown than permit your Children to be corrupted in the least point of their Religion How great his Integrity when the Commissioners urged the abolishing of Episcopacy in England because he had consented to the abolishing of it in Scotland and it was replyed That in Scotland the Act made to that purpose in the minority of King Iames was not repealed and that his consenting to that was only leaving them where the Law left them He said That Reply was true but it was not all for the truth is they are his own words and tell them so the next time they urge that When I did that in Scotland I sinned against my Conscience and I have often repented of it and I hope God hath forgiven me that great sin and by Gods grace for no consideration in the World will
Isle of Wight upon the faith of a kingdom for his honor and life in the face of that kingdom bereaved of both A King that had the Oaths and Protestations of three Kingdoms to secure his life loosing it in one of them where the the Rebels like the thieves that sate on Shuters-hill upon the honest man for felony impeach him of that treason they themselves were guilty of Fond men that when neither Rolfs Pistols B's Dagger E's Poison nor other instruments of Assassination laid about his doors and windows could dispatch a Majesty that a great while they durst not against so many obligations of heaven and earth put to death and yet durst against their own fears and guilt suffer to live They durst judge and condemn him aggravating a horrid treason with a more horrid pretence Hereby Law and Justice were forced like Queen Anne Bulloigns Father being Judge at his Daughters death to assist in a Parricide against their own Father and Author Why these ceremonies formalities and circumstances of Villany why doth Treason chuse the Bench rather than the Vault and to Sentence rather than to Blow up but that the Traytors within being more Villains than those without had a design to render Justice it self as ridiculous as the great Master of it and assassinate Law it self as well as the Law-giver First they lay violent hands on themselves threatning the Lords they should Sit no longer if they concurred not and reducing the House of Commons to forty of the reproach of that Assembly and then on his Majesty It was necessary first that they should murder the Parliament by excluding vexing and abusing above four hundred of the Commons and laying aside all the Lords before they could come at the King and leave not a sober man in power before they robbed that good Man of his life This contemptible forty of whom yet twenty dissented Vote with their Mercenary and Fanatick Army with whom they hoped to share in their spoils and power no more Addresses to the King nor any more Peace and what was more ridiculous adjust their own Crimes by their own Vote Votes so daringly overturning Foundations that all men seeing all Law and Government cut off by them at one blow looked to their Throats Estates and Children when all that secured these was at one breath overturned Here is a power ascribed the people that they never owned and a power derived from them that they never granted here are the People brought in to judge their King that abhorred it and the King tried for war against his People when all the People were ready to lay down their lives in a war for him Here are the Commons of England pretended when the whole House of Commons was almost excluded and none but such persons as were known Adulterers Cheats two Coblers one Brewer one Goldsmith one Indicted for Committing a Rape another for writing Blasphemy against the Trinity another having said that Diodorus Seculus was a better Author than Moses first asserting to themselves this new authority and then exercising it These that were to be brought to the Bar themselves bring the King in whose name all Malefactors were tried to the Bar himself Those that had been eight years indeavouring to murder the King in a war are made his Judges now that war is over A pretty sight to have seen Clement Ravillaic Faux Catesby and Garnet one day indeavouring to dispatch a King and the next advanced to be his Judges After prayers and fasts the great fore-runners of mischief whereby they indeavoured as impudently to ingage God in the villany he forbid as they had done the people for the Remonstrance framed by Ireton for questioning the King was called the Agreement of the people in a Treason they all abhorred When all the Ministry of England and indeed of the world cryed down the bloudy design contrary to Oaths and Laws and common reason as the shame and disgrace of Religion These Assassinates were satisfied with the preaments of one Pulpit Buffoon Peters a wretched fellow that since he was whipt by the Governors of Cambridge when a youth could not endure government never after and the Revelation of a mad Herfordshire woman concurring with the proceedings of the Army for which she was thanked by the House her Revelations being seasonable and proceeding from an humble spirit All the Nation abhorred their proceedings therefore they hasten them and in five hours draw up such an horrid Act as was not heard of in five thousand years An Act of the Commons of England when not one in five hundred approved it Assembled in Parliament when the Parliament by the Army destroyed for Erecting of an High Court of pretended Iustice for the Trying and Judging of Charles Stuart King of England of that Treason they should have been tried for themselves WHereas it is notorious That Charles Stuart the now King of England not content with those many incroachments which his Predecessors had made upon the People in their Rights and Freedoms hath had a wicked design totally to subvert the Ancient Laws and Liberties of this Nation And in their place to introduce an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government with Fire and Sword Levied and Maintained a cruel War in the Land against the Parliament and Kingdom whereby the Country hath been miserably wasted the publick Treasury exhausted Trade decayed and thousands of People murthered and infinite of other mischiefs committed For all which High and Treasonable Offences the said Charles Stuart might long since be brought to exemplary and condign punishment Whereas also the Parliament well hoping that the restraint and imprisonment of his person after it had pleased God to deliver him into their hands would have quieted the disturbers of this kingdom did forbear to proceed judicially against him But found by sad experience that such their remissness served only to incourage Him and his Complices in the continuance of their evil practises and in raising of new Commotions Designs and Invasions for prevention therefore of the like greater inconveniencies and to the end that no Magistrate or Officer whatsoever may hereafter presume traiterously and maliciously to imagine or contrive the inslaving or destroying of the English Nation and to expect impunity in so doing Be it Ordained and Enacted by the Commons in Parliament Assembled and it is hereby Ordained and Enacted by the Authority thereof That Thomas Lord Fairfax General Oliver Cromwell Lieutenant General Henry Ireton Commissary General Phillip Skippon Major General Sir Hardress Waller Colonel Valentine Walton Col. Thomas Harrison Col. Edward Whalley Col. Thomas Pride Col. Isaac Ewers Col. Rich. Ingoldsby Col. Rich. Dean Col. John Okey Col. Robert Overton Col. John Harrison Col. John Desborow Col. William Goffe Col. Robert Duckinfield Col. Rowland Wilson Col. Henry Martin Col. William Purefoy Col. Godfrey Bosvile Col. Herbert Morley Col. John Barkstead Col. Matthew Tomlinson Col. John Lambert Col. Edmund Ludlow Col.
John Hutchinson Col. Robert Tichborne Col. Owen Roe Col. Robert Mainwaring Col. Robert Lilburn Col. Adrian Scroop Col. Algernoon Sidney Col. John Moor Col. Francis Lassells Col. Alexander Rigby Col. Edmund Harvey Col. John Venn Col. Anthony Staply Col. Thomas Horton Col. Thomas Hammond Col. George Fenwyck Col. George Fleetwood Col. John Temple Col. Thomas Wait Sir Henry Mildmay Sir Thomas Honywood Thomas Lord Grey Phillip Lord Lisle William Lord Mounson Sir John Danvers Sir Thomas Maleverer Sir John Bourchier Sir James Harrington Sir William Brereton Robert Wallop William Heveningham Esquires Isaac Pennington Thomas Atkins Aldermen Sir Peter Wentworth Thomas Trenchard Jo. Blackstone Gilbert Millington Esquires Sir William Constable Sir Arthur Hasilrigg Michael Livesey Richard Salway Humphrey Salway Cor. Holland Jo. Carey Esquires Sir William Armin John Jones Miles Corbet Francis Allen Thomas Lister Ben. Weston Peter Pelham Jo. Gurdon Esquires Francis Thorp Esq. Serjeant at Law Jo. Nutt Tho. Challoner Jo. Anlaby Richard Darley William Say John Aldred Jo. Nelthrop Esquires Sir William Roberts Henry Smith Edmund Wild John Challoner Josias Berneâ—s Dennis Bond Humphrey Edwards Greg. Clement Jo. Fry Tho. Wogan Esquires Sir Greg. Norton Jo. Bradshaw Esquire Serjeant at Law Jo. Dove Esquire John Fowke Thomas Scot Aldermen Will. Cawley Abraham Burrel Roger Gratwicke John Downes Esquires Robert Nichols Esquire Serjeant at Law Vincent Potter Esquire Sir Gilbert Pickering Jo. Weavers Jo. Lenthal Robert Reynolds Jo. Lisle Nich. Love Esquires Sir Edward Baynton Jo. Corbett Tho. Blunt Tho. Boone Aug. Garland Aug. Skenner Jo. Dixwel Simon Meyne Jo. Browne Jo. Lowry Esq. c. Neither were they only bold enough to Vote among themselves this horrid murther but likewise to try the pulse of the people they Proclaim it first at White-hall Gate and when they saw the people indured that afterwards upon Peters motion who said they did nothing if they did it not in the City at Temple-barr and the Exchange Indeed all was hushed and silent but with a dreadful silence made up of amazement and horror the very Traytors themselves not daring to own their new Treason perswaded the Nation that they would not do even what they were most busie about most people being of opinion that they might fright none thinking they durst against all the reason and religion in the world and the great and dreadful obligations of their own Oaths and Protestations murder Him Yet these aforesaid Assassinates meet in the Painted-chamber become now the Jesuits Chamber of Meditation to consult about the slaughter and being heated by one or two of their Demagogues that perswaded them that the Saints saying that there were 5000. as good Saints in the Army as any were in Heaven should Bind the Kings in Chains and the Nobles with Fetters of Iron beseeching them with bended knees and lift up eyes and hands in the peoples name who yet were ready to have stoned them not to let Benhadad go They dare but guarded strongly by a set of Executioners like themselves to Convene before them Ian. 19. 1648. Charles King of England c. hurried against the Publick Faith given him for his Honor and Safety first to Hurstcastlt to see whether he might be poisoned by the unwholesomness of that place and thence with several affronts not to be indured by any man much less a Prince to a place more unwholesom than Westminster and now to be deprived of his life as he had been before of his kingdoms Here the conspiracy might be seen in a body having lost most of its parts save a few villains that would needs take away the Kings life because they would not beg their own life being one of those courtesies we are unwillingly beholding for so hard it is for a man to trust another for his life who he knoweth is conscious that he deserveth not to injoy it contemptible and little A poor Pettifogger Bradshaw that had taken the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy but three Weeks before leading the Herd as President and the whole Plot in his draught Which after a traiterous Speech of Bradshaws opening their pretended authority and resolution to make inquisition for bloud and the Kings laying his Staffe thrice on brazen-faced Cooks back to hold the Libel was read by a Clerk The Traytors Charge of Treason against their Soveraign consisting of sixteen Traiterous Positions THat the said Charles Stuart being admitted King of England and therein trusted with a limited power to govern by and according to the Laws of the Land and not otherwise And by his Trust Oath and Office being obliged to use the power committed to him for the good and benefit of the people and for the preservation of their Rights and Liberties Yet nevertheless out of a wicked design to erect and uphold in himself and Unlimited and Tyrannical Power to Rule according to his Will and to overthrow the Rights and Liberties of the People yea to take away and make void the Foundations thereof and of all redress and remedy of Mis-government which by the Fundamental Constitutions of this Kingdom were reserved on the Peoples behalf in the Right and Power of frequent and successive Parliaments or National meetings in Counsel He the said Charles Stuart for accomplishment of such his designs and for the protecting of himself and his adherents in his and their wicked practises to the same end hath traiterously and maliciously levied war against the Parliament and People therein represented Particularly upon or about the thirtieth day of Iune in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty and two at Beverley in the County of York and upon or about the thirtieth day of Iuly in the year aforesaid in the County of the City of York and upon or about the twenty fourth day of August in the same year at the County of the Town of Nottingham when and where he set up his Standard of war and upon or about the twenty third day of October in the same year at Edge-hill and Keinton field in the County of Warwick and upon or about the thirtieth day of November in the same year at Brainford in the County of Middlesex and upon or about the thirtieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty and three at Cavesham-bridge near Reading in the County of Berks and upon or about the thirtieth day of October in the year last mentioned at or near the City of Gloucester and upon or about the thirtieth day of November in the year last mentioned at Newbury in the County of Berks and upon or about the one and thirtieth day of Iuly in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty and four at Cropredy-bridge in the County of Oxon and upon or about the thirtieth day of September in the year last mentioned at Bodmin and other places adjacent in the County of Cornwall and upon or about the thirtieth day of November in the year
they did he was resolved not to betray the Charge committed to him by and confirmed to him by Ancient Descent And answering the pretended Presidents interruption and false suggestion That he was called to an account by the Authority of the People of England by whose Election he was admitted King That the kingdom descended not to him by Election but by Hereditary Right derived from above a thousand years That by refusing an unlawful power he stood more apparently than they for the Priviledges of the People of England whose Authority was shewed in Parliament Assemblies but that there appeared none of the Lords whose presence and not only theirs but the Kings also was required to the Constituting of a Parliament but that neither one nor both Houses nor any Iudicatory upon Earth had power to call the King of England to account much less some certain Iudges chosen by his Accusers and masked with the authority of the Lower House That he could not make his defence unless they shewed their authority since it would be the same offence to acknowledg a Tyrannical power as to resist a Lawful one And upon the prating Fore-mans bold suggestion That they were satisfied in their own authority Replying rationally That it was not his own apprehension nor theirs neither that ought to decide the Controversie Whereupon the most Excellent King was commanded away with Tomlinson and Hackers guard parting with the Conspiracy without moving his Hat with these words Well Sir and saying on the sight of the Sword I do not fear that And nothing else observable save that the Silver Top of his Staffe falling off at the reading of the Charge he wondred at it and seeing none to take it up he stooped for it himself and put it in his Pocket Munday Ian. 22. after three bloudy Harangues at their Fast Ian. 21. on Gen. 9. 6. Mat. 7. 1. Psal. 149. 6 7. Three Texts as miserably tormented that day as his Majesty was the next these men always first being a torment to Scripture the great Rule of Right and then to all that lived according to it They being perplexed with the Kings Demurrer to their unheard of Jurisdiction resolved among themselves after some debate to maintain it as boldly That if the King offer to dispute the same again the President shall tell him That the Commons of England Assembled in Parliament have Constituted the Court whose power may not be permitted to be disputed by him That if he refused to Answer it shall be accounted a Contumacy to the Court. That if he Answer with a Salvo of his Prerogative above the Court he shall be required to Answer possitively Yea or No. Whereupon the King appearing to the no little disturbance of the Spectators and astonishment of the Conventicle its self not without interruption from the desparate Ringleader of the pack insisted on these Heads without any other Answer for their own power than their own authority That he less regarded his Life than his Conscinece his Honor the Laws and Liberties of the People which that they might not all perish together was a sufficient reason why he could not make his defence before these Iudges and acknowledge a new form of Iudicature For what power had ever any Iudges to erect a Iudicature against their King or by what power said he was it ever granted Not by Gods Laws which on the contrary command obedience to Princes nor by the Laws of the Land which injoyn all Accusations to be read in the Kings Name nor do the Laws give any power to the Lower House of judging even the meanest Subject Nor lastly doth their power flow from any authority which might be pretended extraordinary delegated from the people since they had not asked the consent so much as of every tenth man in this matter and that if power without Laws may set up Courts he knew not how any man could be safe in his Life or Estate it being not his own but the whole kingdoms that he stood upon The Traytor in grain still ever and anon interrupting the Kings Speech and telling him That the Court was abundantly satisfied of their authority and would not admit of any reasons that should detract from their power At last prest upon him to be mindful of his Doom But where said the King in all the world is that Court in which no place is left for reason You shall find Sir answered the President that this very Court is such a one Whereupon after several appearances which they had to see whether they could satisfie their dissenting Members or whether they could alter the judgment of the resolved King Remember said he then when he was going away that it is your King from whom you turn away your ear in vain certainly will my Subjects expect justice from you who stop your ears to your King ready to Plead his Cause It s very remarkable how that in this and all other transactions of his Majesty he appeals to the Reason and Law of the world which is impartial to all Mankind His adversaries to themselves vouching both the truth of their Charge and the Jurisdiction of their Court with their own authority being neither able to prove his Majesty guilty except by their own testimony or if guilty to be tried by any Court on earth but by their own Assertion Nay they that alledged the Parliament of England for the Authority against whom the King should transgress and that by which they proceeded would not receive the Kings earnest and reiterated Appeal to the Lords and Commons who made up that Parliament Long were they troubled how they might assert their power longer how they might execute it some would have Majesty suffer like the basest of Malefactors and that in his Robes of Habiliaments of State that at once they might dispatch a King and Monarchy together Others malice proposed other horrid violences to be offered to him but not to be named among men the men were indeed huge ready at inventing torments being a company of Executioners got together rather than Judges and a pack of Hangmen rather than a Court till at last they thought they should gratifie their ambition to triumph over Monarchy sufficiently if they Beheaded him and so waving all his Pleas for himself and the Allegations of Mankind for him after several unworthy Harangues consisting of nothing else but bold affirmations of that power whereof they had no one ground but those affirmations and reflections on the Kings Demurrer as a delay to their proceedings when indeed he hastened them by offering that towards the peace of the kingdom in one hour that was not thought of in several years Notwithstanding his seasonable caution to them That an hasty Sentence once past might be sooner Repented of than Recalled Conjuring them as they loved the Liberty of the People and the Peace of the Kingdom they so much pretended for they would receive what he had to
corner but as solemnly as ever they took their Solemn League and Covenant against it Spots not of Christianity only but of Nature Born to obey the Soveraign they judged erecting a Court of Justice against that Sacred Head whence flowed all the Jurisdiction in the Land These people that were fitter to keep Shops in Westminster-hall than sit in the Courts there Many of whom that now hoped for the Kings Land must otherwise have been contented with the Kings High-way the true scum of England the basest and then the highest part of it Trades-men still making a trade of war and bloud base people therefore the more cruel The most Savage Beasts are those that come out of Dens The good Kings calamity being enhansed by the vileness of the instruments The steam of a Dung-hill clouding the Sun and vermin the expression is proper to beggars tearing the Lion as Rats formerly ate the Thracians These resolved rather to take away the Kings life than beg their own for life is one of those benefits we have to receive and men are usually ashamed to confess they deserved death And when their own Judges had declared against them and the Peers abhorred them to help a wretched cause and keep up the spirits and concurrence of their party they salve those two affronts with two wretched artifices 1. They bring from Hertford-shire a Woman some say a Witch who said That God by a Revelation to her did approve of the Armies proceedings which message from heaven was well accepted of with thanks As being very seasonable and proceeding from an humble spirit 2. A model of Democratical Principles discountenanced by Faction it self as soon as it had served their turn and against all the publick abhorrencies and detestations by all persons of honor and conscience proceeded first to blacken the King as one of them said they must and then to judge him contrary to those numerous and fearful obligations of their many Oaths to the publick and private Faith which was expressed in their Protestations and many Declarations to the Laws the commands of Scripture to the dishonor of Religion and the endangering of the publick good of the kingdom For levying that war against the disobedient to which they had necessitated him for appearing in arms in divers places proclaiming the war and executing it by killing divers of the good people Impeaching him for a Tyrant a Traytor a Murderer and an implacable Common Enemy Whom they fought for to bring home to his Throne they lead when they have him to a Tribunal where they had nothing against him but what generous Conquerors never reproached the conquered for deeming it its own punishment the unhappy issues of a war which leaves the conquered the only criminal while the names of justice and goodness are the spoils of the Conqueror and a pretence of Tyranny in that government whose only defect if it had any was Lenity and Mercy towards those whose lives Justice would not formerly have pardoned and they despaired lest mercy should not now These Conspirators forming themselves into the Pagantry of a Court with a President of an equal infamy with his new employment A Monster of Impudence and a most fierce prosecutor of evil purposes one of little knowledge in the Law but of so virulent a Tongue that he knew no measure of modesty in speaking and was therefore more often Bribed to be silent than Feed to maintain a Clients Cause His vices had made him penurious and those with his penury had seasoned him for any execrable undertaking And a Solicitor that having in vain by various arts and crimes sought for a subsistence durst not shew himself for fear of a Prison till vexed with a tedious poverty he entertained the horrid overtures of this vile ministry which at the first mention he did profess to abhorr As also an Advocate that being a German Bandito by the mercy and favour of the King escaped here a severer in charge in his own Country than he could invent against his Majesty With an impudent and mimical Buffoon Minister ignominious from his youth for then suffering the contumely of discipline being publickly whipped at Cambridge he was ever after an enemy to Government preaching the villany from Psal. 149. 8. and calling them Saint Judges with a profession that upon a strict scrutiny there were in the Army five thousand Saints no less holy than those that now are in Heaven conversing with God And begging in the name of the People of England as the Conspirators talked too when as the Lady Fairfax said like a Branch of the House of the Veres declared in Court a loud it was a Lye not the tenth part of the people were guilty of such a crime that they would not let Benhadad go They with such Officers as had not a name before they were of this black list invite all people to testifie against the King their calumnies and having with much ado published their Sitting they appear with all the shapes of vile terror and the Kings Majesty with a generous mind scorning the Pageant tribunal and pittying the people now sad with expectations of their own fates when Majesty was no security appeared demanding the Authority and Law they brought him there by contrary to the Publick Faith and they answering The Parliaments discovered the notoriousness of that assertion as false and the vanity of it if true Four days together keeping up his courage and speech from doing any thing unworthy of himself notwithstanding the reiterated reproach of several appearances before the most infamous among men And the hired indignities of the basest of the people saying no more when some Souldiers were forced by Axtel to cry Iustice Iustice Execution Execution than Poor souls for a piece of money they would do as much to their own Commanders And others hired to Spit and what was more odious to blow Tobacco in his Face than wiping it off with My Saviour suffered far more for my sake All the people with the hazard of their lives doing their reverence to him with God save the King God he merciful unto him Only he left this Speech upon Record against the infamous Usurpation containing the substance of the discourse that passed between him and his Traytors His Majesties Reasons against the pretended Iurisdiction of the High Court of Iustice which he intended to have delivered in writing on Munday Ian. 22. 1648 but was not permitted HAving already made my Protestations not only against the illegality of this pretended Court but also that no earthly Power can justly call me who am your King in question as a delinquent I would not any more open my mouth upon this occasion more than to referr my self to what I have spoken were I alone in this case concerned But the duty I owe to God in the preservation of the true Liberty of my People will not suffer me at this time to be silent For how can any free-born
Subject of England call life or any thing he possesseth his own if power without right daily make new and abrogate the old fundamental Law of the Land which I now take to be the present case Wherefore when I came hither I expected that you would have endeavoured to have satisfied me concerning these grounds which hinder me to answer to your pretended Impeachment but since I see nothing I can say will move you to it though Negatives are not so naturally proved as Affirmatives yet I will shew you the reason why I am confident you cannot judge me nor indeed the meanest man in England For I will not like you without shewing a reason seek to impose a belief upon my Subjects There is no proceeding just against any man but what is warranted either by Gods Laws or the Municipal Laws of the Country where he lives Now I am most confident that this days proceedings cannot be warranted by Gods Laws for on the contrary the authority of the obedience unto Kings is clearly warranted and strictly commanded both in the Old and New Testament which if denied I am ready instantly to prove And for the question now in hand there it is said That where the word of a King is there is power and who may say unto him what dost thou Eccles. 8. 4. Then for the Laws of this Land I am no less confident that no learned Lawyer will affirm that an Impeachment can lye against the King they all going in his Name and one of their Maxims is That the King can do no wrong Besides the Law upon which you ground your proceedings must either be old or new if old shew it if new tell what authority warranted by the Fundamental Laws of the Land hath made it and when But how the House of Commons can erect a Court of Judicature which was never one it self as is well known to all Lawyers I leave to God and the World to judge And were full as strange that they should pretend to make Laws without King or Lords House to any that have heard speak of the Laws of England And admitting but not granting that the People of Englands Commission could grant your pretended power I see nothing you can shew for that for certainly you never asked the question of the tenth man of the kingdom and in this way you manifestly wrong even the poorest Plough-man if you demand not his free consent nor can you pretend any colour for this your pretended Commission without the consent at the least of the major part of every man in England of whatsoever quality or condition which I am sure you never went about to seek so far are you from having it Thus you see that I speak not for my own Right alone as I am your King but also for the true Liberty of all my Subjects which consists not in the sharing the power of Government but in living under such Laws Such a Government as may give themselves the best assurance of your lives and propriety of their goods Nor in this must or do I forget the Priviledges of both Houses of Parliament which this days proceedings doth not only violate but likewise occasion the greatest breach of their Publick Faith that I believe ever was heard of with which I am far from charging the two Houses For all the pretended crimes laid against me bear date long before the late Treaty at Newport in which I having concluded as much as in me lay and hopefully expecting the two Houses agreement thereunto I was suddenly surprized and hurried from thence as a Prisoner upon which account I am against my will brought hither where since I am come I cannot but to my power defend the Ancient Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom together with my own just Right Then for any thing I can see the Higher House is totally excluded And for the House of Commons it is too well known that the major part of them are detained or deterred from Sitting so as if I had no other this were sufficient for me to protest against the lawfulness of your pretended Court. Besides all this the peace of the kingdom is not the least in my thoughts and what hopes of settlement is there so long as power reigns without rule of Law Changing the whole frame of that Government under which this kingdom hath flourished for many hundred years nor will I say what will fall out in case this lawless unjust proceeding against me do go on And believe it the Commons of England will not thank you for this change for they will remember how happy they have been of late years under the Reign of Queen Elizabeth the King my Father and my self until the beginning of these unhappy troubles and will have cause to doubt that they shall never be so happy under any new And by this time it will be sensibly evident that the Armes I took up were only to defend the Fundamental Laws of this kingdom against those who have supposed my power hath totally changed the ancient Government Thus having shewed you briefly the Reasons why I cannot submit to your pretended Authority without violating the trust which I have from God for the welfare and liberty of my people I expect from you either clear reasons to convince my judgment shewing me that I am in an error and then truly I will readily answer or that you will withdraw your proceedings With what composedness of Spirit and patience he heard the pretended Charge and all its Slanders and Reproaches smiling at the words Tyrant Traytor c. with what Authority he demanded by what lawful Power grounded on Gods Word or warranted by the Constitutions of the Kingdom they proceeded with what earnestness he admonished them both what Guilt and what Judgments they would bring upon this Land by proceeding from one sin to another against their lawful Sovereign With what resolution he told them He would not betray the Trust reposed in him for his own Prerogative his Peoples Liberty and the Priviledges of Parliament as long as there was breath in his body until they could satisfie God and the Countrey Adding that there was a God in heaven that would call them to an account And that it was utterly as unlawful to submit to a new and unlawful Authority as to resist a lawful one Neither his apprehension nor theirs being likely to end the Controversie How zealously he told them That if the free People of England now secure of nothing when all things were subject to an Arbitrary Power were not concerned as well as himself he would have satisfied himself with one Protestation against any Jurisdiction on earth trying a Supream Magistrate but in a case of so extensive a Concernment it was unreasonable to impose upon men bold Assertions without evident Reasons it being not enough to say The Court assert their own Jurisdiction and you must not be permitted to offer any thing against it it s not
But if it be only matter of Conquest then it is a great Robbery as a Pyrate said to Alexander that he was the greater Robber himself but a petty one And so Sir I think the way you are in is much out of the way Now Sir to put you in one way believe it you will never do right nor God will never prosper you until you give God his due the King his due that is my Successors and the People their due I am as much for them as any of you you must give God his due by rightly regulating his Church according to his Scriptures which is now out of order To set you in a way particularly now I cannot but only this A National Synod freely called freely debating among themselves must settle this when every opinion is freely and clearly heard For the King indeed I will not then turning to a Gentleman that touched the Axe said Hurt not the Axe that may hurt me For the King the Laws of the Land will clearly instruct you for that therefore because it concerns my own particular I only give you a touch of it For the People and truly I desire their Liberty and Freedom as much as any body whatsoever but I must tell you that their Liberty and Freedom consists in having of Government those Laws by which their Life and Goods may be most their own It is not for having share in Government Sir that is nothing pertaining to them A Subject and a Soveraign are clean contrary things and therefore until they do that I mean that you do put the People in that Liberty as I say certainly they will never enjoy themselves Sir it was for this that I am now come here If I would have given way to an Arbitrary way to have all Laws changed according to the power of the Sword I needed not have come here and therefore I tell you and I pray God it be not laid to your charge that I am the Martyr of the People Introth Sirs I shall not hold you much longer for I will only say this to you that in truth I could have desired some little time longer because I would have put this that I have said in a little more order and a little better digested then I have done and therefore I hope you will excuse me I have delivered my Conscience I pray God you may take those courses that are best for the good of the Kingdom and your own salvations Dr. Iuxon Will your Majesty though it may be very well known your Majesties affections to Religion yet it may be expected that you should say somewhat for the worlds satisfaction King I thank you very heartily my Lord for that I had almost forgotten it Introth Sirs my Conscience in Religion I think is very well known to all the word and I declare before you all that I dye a Christian according to the profession of the Church of England as I found it left me by my Father and this honest man I think will witness it Then turning to the Officers said Sirs Excuse me for this same I have a good Cause and a gracious God I will say no more Then turning to Col. Hacker he said Take care they do not put me to pain and Sir this if it please you Then a Gentleman coming near the Axe The King said Take heed of the Axe pray take heed of the Axe Then speaking to the Executioner said I shall say but very short prayers and when I thrust out my hands Then the King called to Dr. Juxon for his Night-cap and having put it on he said to the Executioner Do's my Hair trouble you who desired him to put it all under his Cap which the King did accordingly by the help of the Executioner and the Bishop Then the King turning to Dr. Juxon said I have a good Cause and a gracious God on my side Dr. Juxon There is but one Stage more this Stage is troublesome and turbulent it is a short one but you may consider it will soon carry you a very great way It will carry you from Earth to Heaven And there you shall find a great deal of cordial Joy and Comfort King I go from a Corruptible to an Incorruptible Crown where no disturbance can be no disturbance in the world Dr. Iuxon You are Exchanged from a Temporal to an Eternal Crown a good Exchange The King then said to the Executioner Is my Hair well Then the King took off his Cloak and George and giving his George to Dr. Juxon said Remember Then the King put off his Doublet and being in his Wastcoat put his Cloak on again and looking on the Block said to the Executioner You must set it fast Executioner It is fast Sir King When I put my hands out this way stretching them out then ... After that having said two or three words as he stood to himself with Hands and Eyes lifted up immediately stooping down laid his Neck upon the Block And then the Executioner again putting his Hair under his Cap the King said thinking he had been going to strike Stay for the Sign Executioner Yes I will and please your Majesty Then the King making some pious and private Ejaculations before the Block as before a Desk of Prayer he submitted without that violence they intended for him if he refused his Sacred Head to one stroke of an Executioner that was disguised then as the Actors were all along which Severed it from his Body In the consequence of which stroke great villanies as well as great absurdities have long sequels the Government of the world the Laws and Liberties of three Kingdoms and the Being of the Church was nearly concerned So fell Charles the First and so expired with him the Liberty and Glory of three Nations being made in that very place an instance of Humane Frailty where he used to shew the Greatness and Glory of Majesty All the Nation was composed to mourning and horror no King ever leaving the world with greater sorrows women miscarrying at the very intimation of his death as if The Glory was departed Men and women falling into Convulsions Swounds and Melancholy that followed them to their graves Some unwilling to live to see the issues of his death fell down dead suddenly after him Others glad of the least Drop of Bloud or Lock of Hair that the covetousness of the Faction as barbarous as their Treason made sale of kept them as Relicks finding the same virtue in them as with Gods blessing they found formerly in his person All Pulpits rung Lamentations and the great variety of opinions in other matters were reconciled in this That it was as horrid a fact as ever the Sun saw since it withdrew at the sufferings of our Saviour and the King as compleat a man as mortality refined by industry was capable to be Children amazed and wept refusing comfort at this even some of his Judges could not
Church a respectful carriage towards Church-men his punctal dealing with the Cathedral his good usage to the subordinate Tenants and good House-keeping that as he had got his Lease easily he would keep house on the Church-patrimony exemplarily what he said of Simoniecal Parsons is true of over-charged Tenants They can scarce afford to feed their sheep fat who rent their Pasture too dear These were his faults which were other mens virtue the slander of good and evil varying with the humors of men and the temper of times which turned about him as the Spheres about the Center or as the alterations of his Body about his Soul himself all the while immoveable reckoning that answer of the King when he was moved to interpose in his behalf with the Parliament so much honor to him that he wished it Inscribed on his Tomb. He that will Preach other than he can prove let him suffer I give them no thanks to give me my due I cannot but take notice of what was strange when he spoke and found a great truth by them that lived to see it viz. That whosoever lived to see an happy end of that War which they saw so unhappily begun should observe that no man of what perswasion soever but would be heartily sorry for it and heartily repent of it for they should find so many interests coming in to disappoint them in the end they aimed at in the war that they would wish they had never commenced it One Burgoes Pupilla Oculi was a Book he much recommended to young men to propose to themselves a pattern and Bishop Felton was his pattern was his advice to young Preachers to aim at some particular thing in the reading of any Book was his rule to young Students to be always doing something was his counsel to his young Hearers to Analyse Authors was his direction to young University Men to Pen Sermons and Pray them was his lesson to his young Curates on whom he called often for an account of their Studies dismissing them with this Caution of the Pythagoreans 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Reverence thy self Do nothing unworthy your Calling You cannot be too humble as Men neither can you be too grave and reserved as Ministers Tanti eritis aliis quanti vobis met ipsis But he had his virtues too much to be exactly charactered being of the Captains mind who when another had made a large Recital of his own Atchivements asked him and what have you done Answered Others can tell you that not enduring to give any account of himself any more than the Conqueror at the Olympick Games endured the Laurel due to him until another put it on his Head which we shall hear do in these words Hic Iacet Firtus repulsae nescia sordidae Intaminatis quae fulsit honoribus Nec sumit out ponit secures Arbitrio Popularis aurae Duris ut Ilex tonsus Bipennibus Per damna per Caedes ab ipsis Duxit opes animumque Injuriis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Anno Christi 164 ... Episcopatus 9. Aetatis 63. THE Life and Death OF Dr. ROBERT SIBTHORP IT were pitty to sever them in their Character that were so like in their Carriage both making themselves known to the world by the Shibboleth of the Authority of the Church and the Prerogative of the King the first was a rational man and dived to the bottom of his subject the other a smooth man that got in the bottom of his Hearers hearts whose discourse went off plausibly in the ayr of his good delivery though they passed not so well in the steady and fixed way of the Press The Preaching of the Sermon called Apostolick Obedience got him much repute at Court and as much envy for this passage in it viz. That the Prince hath power to direct his Counsel and make Laws and Subjects if they cannot exhibite active obedience in case the thing commanded should be against the Law of God or of nature or were impossible yet nevertheless they ought to yield a passive obedience and in all other cases they are bound to active obedience the time the loan was pressed by the King and so much disgusted by the people in the Country It was liked so well by those that heard it that they would have it Printed and so ill by Arch-bishop Abbot when he read it that he would not License it But it seems that Sermon that was not approved of by the Arch-bishop was not so much as questioned by the Parliament which found so much the more fault in the man as they found the less fault in the Sermon which vexed them grievously since they could not but be angry at it and could not punish it it being smart against their late courses yet cautious within their standing Laws But being an active man and if he had any fault it was too much heat he doth not only assert the doctrine of the Kings Prerogative and the Subjects but he suppresseth the impugners of it complaining with Dr. Lamb even of the Bishop of Lincoln against the Loan to the Council-board and pursuing that complaint in Star-chamber But the best jest is that those very people that found fault with this Sermon made it a Branch of their Articles against Arch-bishop Laud that he blotted several passages about Sabbath-breaking Evil Counsellors Popery which they say the Doctor had cunningly interwoven into his discourse to sweeeen the harsh point of the Prerogative out of that Sermon when indeed that Sermon came out with so much care on all sides that the King commanded four Bishops to view and judge it and every passage in it All the preferment that he had was his Vicarage of Brackley and a poor Prebends of Peterburgh though so deserving of the Church in that Diocess that Dr. Iohn Towers Bishop of Peterburgh in a Letter to my Lord of Canterbury wished him as heartily in the Deanery as he did himself in the Pallace It may be some that were in the Historians Character sola socordia innocentes that had flegm enough to make them as they phrase it discreet and moderate judged him one of those unhappy men that had a certain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 heat or activity of spirit that is say they wonderful apt without a due corrective of wisdom and knowledge to break forth into intemperate carriage and disturb the peace and censured him as Tacitus doth some stirring Commonwealths-men Quod per abrupta inclarescerent sed in nullum Reipusum talking that zeal like Quick-silver must be allayed with wisdom and calling honest men in Livies phrase Spiritus magni magis quam utiles But let us hear in this case a most learned and a most ingenious person It s not for superiors to frown upon and brow-beat those who are hearty and exact in the management of their Ministry and with a grave and insignificant Nod to call a well-regulated and resolved zeal want of prudence and moderation such discouraging of men in
of all to his undertakings in the Low Countries where his entertainments were free and noble his carriage towards Officers and Souldiers obliging especially those of his own Country his Engagements in every Action and Council remarkable his Designs on the Enemy restless and his Assaults forward being with the first generally at a Breach or Pass thrice Unhorsed but never daunted before Newport His courage growing from his dangers seldom using a Bed abroad and having little use of it as sleeping but four hours a night usually at home hardening thereby his body and knitting his soul. The first Expedition wherein he appeared was in the Company of the Earls of Essex and Nottingham to Cales where his great spirit was so impatient of delay that when it was Voted they should set upon the Town and Ships he and the Earl of Essex threw up their Caps and were so forward that he was Knighted in the Market-place where he said An old Woman with a Stone knocked down the Esquire and the General commanded him to rise a Knight His next adventure was with Sir Thomas Vere to Brill where he bestowed his time in observing the exact way of modern and regular Fortification His third Expedition was with Gilbert Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury then Ambassador to make observation upon the Renowned French King H. 4. and his Court the safest and most useful travelling is in an Ambassadors Company and the best places to travel in is Holland to see all the world and France to see any part of it Whence he stepped to see the siege of Amiens so honorably managed by Sir Iohn Baskervile and Sir Arthur Savage His fourth sally was after a Voyage with the Earl of Cumberland to take the Spanish Câ—rickes at Porto Rico with the Northern Ambassadors the Lord Zouch and Dr. Perkins to view the strength Interest and Alliance of the Danes Swedes Muscovians c. and upon his return a short journey after the Earl of Essex to see the obstructions to and the benefits of the Conquest of Ireland And the last Voyage under Queen Elizabeth was with his Country-men Sir Richard Leveson and Sir William Mounson to take the great Caricke worth 1000000 Crowns in the very â—ight of the Spanish â—leet and under their Castle to the great loss of the Spaniard but the infinite advantage of the English who were looked upon now as a people to be feared not to be invaded thus diverting the power of Spain that ever and anon threatned us to defend its self Upon King Iames his arrival he took a private journey to view the Interests Rarities Politicks Magnificences and the Designs of Italy to prepare himself with the more advantage to wait on the Earl of Nottingham in the splendid Ambassie to the slow and reserved Court of Spain whence after a view of the famous siege of Ostâ—ndâ— he returned to be one of the Knights of the Bath at the Installation of Charles Duke of York afterwards King of England And so during the peaceable Reign of King Iames the accomplished Lord setled in Lincoln-shire attended as was occasion 1. The Parliament with very useful suggestions in the three points he spake most to viz. Plantations Trade the Draining of the Fensâ— with other Improvements of our Country and Commodities 2. The Court upon Solemn times with a grave and exemplary aspect and presence 3. The Courts of Justice reckoning the meanest service of Justice not too low for his Lordship which was high enough for a King in his Country with tried Arts of Government severe proceedings against Idleness and dissoluteness several ways to employ and enrich his Neighbors and wholsom orders for the execution of Laws And 4. appearing at home sometime at half-light sometimes like himself as Affairs required improving his Estate as formerly by saving expences and gaining experience in travel So now by Rich Matches equally advancing his Revenue and Honor. 2. By thrifty management 3. Noble Traffick he having learned at Florence and Venice that Merchandise is consistent with Nobility and that the Stamel dy is no stain to the Scarlet Robe and a due improvement of his Estate with due incouragement to his Tenants whose thriving was his security as well as honor and tender regard of his Neighbors disdaining as much to offer an injury to those beneath him as he did to receive one from those above him Such his tenderness of the poor that thronged about his doors as if his house had been then what it was formerly an Hospital the Neighbor Gentry complaining of him merrily as Queen Elizabeth did of F. Russel the second Earl of Bedford That he made all the beggars Such the exactness of his pay and word to all he dealt with On mine Honor was the best assurance from him in the world Such the good Government and civility of his Family a Colledge rather than a Palace where the Neighborhood were bred rather than hired and taught to command themselves by serving him So great his care against Inclosures Whereas no grass groweth where the Grand Seigniors horse sets his foot so nothing but grass grows where some rather great than good men set their evil but powerful eyes His House-keeping so noble having his fish especially Pikes of which he would say it being the Water-Tyrant that destroyed more fish than it was worth that it was the costliest dish at his Table a dish of more State than Profit his Fowl his Beef Mutton Venison and Corn of his own So happy his way of ending Controversies among his Neighbors and consequently so many ways did he serve support and sweeten the Government that he was created Earl of Lindsey 1626. and after the ill success of the Lord Wimbledon and the Earl of Essex and the Duke of Buckingham as a man reserved for hazzards and extremities he when all men stood amazed expecting upon what great Person the Dukes Command at Sea should be conferred was pitched upon as Commander in Chief of the Fleet making up in Gallantry Courage and Experience what he wanted in Presence his contracted worth was the more vigorous little Load-stones do in proportion draw a greater quantity of Steel than those that be far greater because their Poles are nearer together and their virtue more united towards which place Sept. 8. 1628. from Portsmouth arriving at the Bar of the Haven with reasonable speed of Wind and Weather which though fortified by Cardinal Richlieu's monstrous Boomes Chains and Barracado's exceeding all Narration and History he bravely attempted passing the Out-works and Bulwarks to the very mouth of the Haven untill a cross-winde returned them foul one upon another from which great dangers and greater service he brought off the Fleet with a retreat as honorable as Conquest that the effect of Conduct and Prudence and this of Fortune 1630. He was admitted of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most Honorable Privy-Council and in right of his Ancient Family Lord
quo nemo unquam vel mussitavit male THE Life and Death OF Mr. HENRY COMPTON OUT of respect to the Right Honorable the Earl of Northampton I have put together the distant Lives and Deaths of his three Brothers and to keep on in the name I annex Henry Comptons Son of Sir Henry Compton of Surrey I think the very same Sir Henry Compton of whom I find this Note in Haberdashers-hall Sir Henry Compton of Brambleton Com. Sussex with 300 l. per annum settled 1372 02 00 A sober and a civil person this Henry Compton was unhappy only in bad Company which are apt to ensnare good natures that like the good fellow Planet Mercury is much swayed by neighbor Influences No Company is uncomfortable gladness its self would grieve for want of one to express its self to joy like heat looseth strength for want of reflection but bad Company is infectious unless a man had the art when with them not to be of them Like the River Dee in Merionith-shire which running through Pimblemcer remains intire and mingleth not her streams with the water of the Lake But it were Tyranny to trample on him for those infirmities he so often lay prostrate before God for and what God hath graciously forgotten let no man despightfully remember His fall was as much the triumph of the Rebels as his life was their shame doing even when Religion was nothing but discourse better than they could speak his heart being better than their very tongues The occasion of his death was the same with that of the Nations ruin Iealousies and a strange suspicion that because a Lady my Lord Chandois Courted for him his intire Friend and constant Bed-fellow had a greater kindness for my Lord himself than for him that my Lord spoke two words for himself for one he spoke for him Jealousie the rage of this good man that shot vipers through his soul not to be pacified with the arguments urged the mediations used the protestations made though the most rational and the best natured man living after three days interposal especially upon some mad fellows suggesting to his relenting thoughts That it would be Childrens play to Challenge and not to Fight How passion diverts reason and lust overcomes and that unhallowed heat towards a Mistress the more sacred respect towards a Friend through whose heart he must needs make a way to the other heart that scorned him Fond men that undervalue themselves so much as to kill a man that they may injoy the pleasures of a beast fond hope to expect satisfaction in the injoyment of that person whom we cannot see without a guilt that will make a Bed of Doun a torment when each blush of the woman puts in minde of the bloud shed for her when each embrace recollects the last parting of dearest friends when we cannot feel the wound love makes without a greater from the thoughts of that hatred it gave Blind love indeed that killest the choicest friends for the deadliest foes a strange way really to hate out of suspicion that we may be hated to be miserable for fear of being miserable But see the hand of God to whom they appealed he that would needs fight falls and be that would not conquers though the oddes of Mr. Comptons side was five to one Duels those exercises that become neither men for men should reason and beasts fight nor Christian whose honor it is to suffer injuries but neither to give nor retaliate any generally favor the most unwilling as honor the thing they fight for being a shadow followeth him most that flyeth it THE Life and Death OF GEORGE Lord CHANDOIS THE flames of Eteocles and Polynices who had been at variance in the Field when they lived divided in their Urnes when they were dead Not so here but as a little dust thrown over them reduceth Bees that swarm to a settlement so a little earth cast upon them compose the most mortal enemies to a reconciliation our Passing Bells duely extinguishing our heats and animosities as the Curfue-Bell rung in William the Conquerors time every night at eight of the clock put out all Fires and Candles These noble persons divided in their death shall be united in their history as they were in their lives the great patterns of friendship agreeable in their tempers infinitely obliging in their converse for though they were always together yet such the great variety of their accomplishments every hour they injoyed one another had its fresh pleasures pleasures not allayed but increased by injoyment open and clear in their carrage mutually confident in their trusts faithful in their reproofs and admonitions tender in each others weaknesses and failings ready to serve one anothers occasions impatient of absence for they lived and dwelt together careful and jealous in each others concerns in a word observing the exact measures of the noblest relation in the world Friendship Bruges Lord Chandois Baron of Sudely in the County of Glocester descended from Gâ—â—â— Daughter of Ethrelred a Saxon King of this Land and Walter de Main a Nobleman of Normandy His Ancestor Sir Io. Bruges created Baron Chandois of Sudely 1 Mariae 1553. being under God the instrument of saving Queen Elizabeths life as he was one of the many Noblemen that would have saved King Charles For when the great part of the Peers who were of the most Ancient Families and Noblest Fortunes and a very great number of the House of Commons persons of just hopes and fair Estates withdrew to weaken those designs which though they discovered they durst not in London oppose my Lord retired with the first Witnessing the justice and honor of the Kings proâ—eedings Iune 15. and engaging to defend his Majesties Crown and Dignity together with his just and legal Prerogative the true Protestant Religion Established by Law the lawful Liberties of the Subjects of England with the just Priviledges of his Majesty and both his Houses of Parliament against all Persons and Power whatsoever not obeying any Orders or Commands whatsoever not waranted by the known Laws of the Land Iune 13. 1644. at York under his Hand and Seal And according to this Declaration he hastened into Glocester-shire first to disabuse the people 1. Concerning the Idle and Seditious Scandals raised upon the King and his Government 2. Touching Illegal Levies made and Forces raised by a pretended Ordinance of the Militia without the Kings Authority against the known Laws of the Land being as active in dispersing his Majesties Proclamations and Declarations as others were in carrying about the Factious Pamphets and when those courses wanted their just effects because of the judicial infatuation and delusion poor people were given up to to stop these horrid beginnings of a Civil War by arming Tenants and Servants raising with Abraham an Army out of his own house and by Garrison his house which by the Law is every mans Castle at Sudeley near Winchcomb in Glocester-shire seated on the
them as friends yet deprived and imprisoned they were so that the good Doctor could attend his Sacred Majesty now calling for him no otherwise than by the excellent Sermons he earnestly demanded and the Doctor dutifully sent and gaining no more favour till the Kings death but with the mediation of his brother-in-Brother-in-law Sir Iohn Temple than to be his own prisoner at the honorable Sir Philip Warwicks house at Clapham in Bedford-shire whence on the approach of that unparallelled villany he drew up most pathetique Addresses to the Army that perpetrated it and an unanswerable Reply to Ascham and Goodwyn those two only monsters of mankind that durst defend it Which when now past though it transported him as far as either affection or duty could carry him yet sunk him not in an useless amazement for redoubling his fasting his tears and solemn prayer he resumed his wonted studies And Reflecting on the Atheism that Horrid Fact and other Black Circumstances threatned he published his equally seasonable and applauded Reasonableness of Christian Religion Considering that there was not a more dangerous step to irreligion than for those who durst not but own it yet to deprave it to a most scandalous Theory and a most horrid Systeme he cleared its wrested Original in two Latine Quarto Volumes with Reference to the Jewish and Heathen Customs the Primitive usages among Christians and Heretiques the Importance of the Hellenistical Dialect by which means in a manner he happened to take in all the difficulties of the New Testament a Collation of several Greek Copies and a New Translation drawn up many years ago for his own use which on second thoughts to serve all capacities he cast into the present frame and method of the Annotations on the New Testament The careful and publick spirited man adverting that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Religion though never so cleared could not inwardly oblige without a power confessed did outwardly awe Upon the Archbishop of Armaghs request 1. To clear some Exceptions Blondel had made against his Edition of Ignatius from some Eastern Counsels 2. And according to his promise of a fuller account to publish that in Latine which he had writ to him in English as well for his own honor whom Salmasius had unworthily called Nebulo as the honor of Episcopacy now as L. Capellus intimated in his Thesis of Church-government at Sedan deserted by all men he drew up those nervous and unanswerable Dissertations Thus cleared and vindicated he our Religion in bonds that was first published there notwithstanding 1. The loss of his dear Mother whose last blessing he was forbid to attend her For 2. The defeat of his Majesty at Worcester from whose own hand he received then a most gracious letter for the satisfaction of his Loyal Subjects concerning his adherence to the established Religion of the Church of England wherein his Royal Father lived a Saint and died a Martyr And 3. The calamity that fell on the honorable Sir Iohn Packingtons Family thereupon at Westwooâ—â—â— whither he was now removed Bearing up himself with the providence of his Maâ—esties miraculous Deliverance in expectation of his no less miraculous Restauration To use his own words That God who had thus powerfully rescued him out of Aegypt would not suffer him to perish in the Wilderness but though his possage be through the Red Sea he would at last bring him unto Canaan that he should come out of tribulation as gold out of the fire purified but not consumed But others having not that happy prospect of nor those pious and â—iducial reflections on those occurrences and therefore some in that dark juncture falling on the one side to the Pompous way of the Catholicks others on the other side to that more Novel of the Schismaticks the prudent watchman equally provided for both For the first in his Treatise of Heresie and Schism his discourses against the Catholick Gentleman and his Armor-bearer S.W. and his Tract of Fundamentals Forthe second in his six Queries his Replies to Mr. Cawdry Mr. Ieanes and the noble provincial Assembly at London on the Presbyterian account and to Mr. Owen and Mr. Tombes on the Independants and Anabaptists adding that pathetick Paraenesis upon the Interdict Ian. 1. 1655. writ first in his Tears and then with his Ink he looking on this sad dispensation as a reproaching to use his own words his and his brethrens former unprofitableness By casting them out as straw to the Dunghall A dispensation that had even broken his great heart had he not admitted of an expedient that secured all real duties in the Family where he was Neither was he more troubled for the Silence imposed on the Orthodox Ministry at present than amazed at the failure threatned them for the future both in the superior order of Episcopacy which he provided against by a correspondence with his Majesty abroad and in the inferior of Priesthood which he designed to supply a seminary of pious learned and â—ellâ— pâ—â—ncipled Pensioners be kept on foot till his death in a way more suitable to his Heroick minde than his low fortune in which business it was observable how his choice fixed on piety it being his prinple That exemplary virtue must restore the Church But the Nation being too narrow a circle for his diffusive goodness his care extended to the banished abroad as well as his vigilance to the afflicted at home and several sums of money did he send over notwithstanding that the Vsurpers discovered it and convented him whose commanding worth awed them to that reverence of him that when others were amazed at the surprized he made it only an opportunity of saying something home to the fierce Monster concerning his soul and discourse the appropriate ways remaining to alleviate at least if not expiate for them coming off with a new experiment of his old observation That they who least considered hazzard in the doing of their duties fared still best Amidst which sad diversion his labours yet grew up in an un-interrupted course His Review of the Annotations his Exposition of the Book of Psalms his Pacifick Discourse of Gods Grace and Decrees to Bishop Sanderson upon some Letters that passed between that reverend and learned Prelate and Dr. Pierce his Latine Tract of Confirmation in answer to Mr. Daillee together with his Enterprize upon the Old Testament begun at the Provâ—rbs and pursued to a third part of that Book until at the opening of the year 1660. when all things tended visibly to the great Restauration and the good Dr. was invited to London to assist in the great work of the composure of breaches in the Church against which undertaking and the ensuing publick employments he was to expect He 1 Examined his inclinations temptations and defects with the assistance of his friends 2. He contrived such publick good works as he might lay himself out in the Diocess of Worcester designed his charge And 3. Fell to
of Ianuary was five times auspicious to Charles Duke of Anjou the 24. of February four times happy to Charles the Fifth as the twelfth of May was to Charles the Eighth and to say no more the third of September hath been observable to England 1650. at Dunbar 1651. at Worcester 1658. at Whitehall and 1666. at London He had a Tutor crooked with age that streightened the manners of his youth arming him against those Customs that are not knocked but serued into the soul inuring him to good discourse and company habituating him to temperance and good order whence he had the advantage of others not only in health but in time and business and diverting him with safe cheap but manly and generous Recreations The result of which Education was a knowing and a staid nature that made him a Lamb when pleased a Lion when angry daring in the highest tumults 1640. and 1641. to give the best Counsel and to oppose the worst advising those that complained that his Majesty was gone away to lure him home by their loving behaviour and not do as those troublesome women who by their hideous out-cries drive their wandring Husbands further off And when the House of Lords became the House of Commons by vile compliances with tumults when the Lords to climb up to the peoples favour trampled on one another the rabble bringing tales and they belief he though secure in his person yet not safe in his relation and allegiance at Westminster follows his Soveraigns fortunes as his Predecessors had done his Ancestors it was the first Lord Spencer of Wormeleighton that in Parliament to another Lord who told him as they were discoursing of their Ancestors service to the Crown That at that time his Fore-fathers were keeping sheep returned That if they then kept sheep yours were then plotting of Treason He pit ied not but reproved them that bemoaned his Majesties distance and whereas they expected to be commâ—nded for their patience under so great a punishment he condemned them for deserving it often urging that of Seneca Epist. 80. Nihil rex male parentibus majus minaripotest quam ut abeat de regno The last words he spoke in the Parliament House at Westminster were these We had been satisfied long ere this if we did not ask things that deny themselves and some men had not shuffled Demands into our Propositions on purpose that we may have no satisfaction He brought 15000 l. and 1200 men to his Majesties relief and the Earl of Northampton his Countey mans assistance adding to his Estate and Friends his Counsel and personal service wherein in dispute about a rising ground in the first Newbery fight not far from his Majesty he fell First a good Patriot upon all other occasions as one of them at Wâ—stminster observed promoting the Trade Manufactures and Priviledges of this Countrey and now standing by his Majesty as he evidently saw him stand for his Kingdom saying by a foresight and Prospect he had of things suitable to the eminence of his place that one seven years Truth is the Daughter of Time would shew that the King was the true Common-wealths-man Secondly a true Nobleman that was vertuous because it became him as well as because it was injoyned him being above vice as well as without it looking upon it as his shame and dishonor as well as sin and offence Thirdly a good Neighbor the Country about him when he had occasion to make use of it being his friends that loved rather than slaves that feared him Fourthly a discreet Landlord finding wayes to improve his Land rather than rack his Tenants Fifthly a noble House-keeper to whom that ingenuity that he was Master of himself was welcome in others Sixthly an honest Patron seldom furnishing a Church with an Incumbent till he had consulted the Colledge he had been of and the Bishop he lived under Seventhly an exemplary Master of a Family observing exactly the excellent Rules he so strictly injoyned consecrating his house to a Temple where he ordered his followers to wrestle with God in Prayer while he wrestled with the Enemy in fight whence those holy thoughts that went as harbingers of his soul to heaven whereof he had a glimpse before he died through the chinks of a wounded body when those noble persons Sept. 20. 1643. closed his eyes that through weeping had hardly any left themselves leaving behind him a noble Lord of whom Dr. Pierce that had the tuition of him gave this Character That his choice endowments of nature having been happily seasoned and crowned with grace gave him at once such a willingness and aptness to be taught as reconciled his greatest pains with ease and pleasure and made the Education of his dear Lord not so much his imployment as his Recreation and Reward And a noble Lady not to be mentioned without the highest honor in this Catalogue of Sufferers to so many of whom her House was a Sanctuary her Interest a Protection her Estate a Maintenance and the Livings in her gift a Preferment among whom the foresaid excellent person acknowledged to her all the visible contentment of his suffering years a good portion and a good people which he injoyed by her favor and kept by her interest and power Bene est ab unde est nunc sat est etiam perduellionibus totus in uno cadit exercitus Hero Compendia fati Sunderlandius Caernarvon Falklandius quos nec tota plebs redimat gloriae triumviros ipso casu triumphantes quod sic moriendo mori nesciant dum sit hominibus virtus aut virtuti historia quae sit temporum testis hominum THE Life and Death Of the Right Honorable ROBERT PIERE-POINT Earl of Kingston HIS Ancestors came in with the Conqueror to settle the Monarchy of this kingdom and he went out of the world maintaining it with his Interest which was so great that the Faction pretended his Concurrence with them a passage which puts me in minde of the great power of his Predecessors one of whom in Edward the first Kings time hath this Memorandum of Record Memorandum THat Henry de Piere-point on Munday the day after the Octaves of St. Michael came into the Chancery at Lincoln and said publickly that he had lost his Seal and protested that if any Instrument were found Sealed with that Seal after that time the same should be of no value or effect Indeed it was his great Services when Sheriff 13. Iacobi and greater when Justice of Peace and King Iames in a Speech in Star-Chamber valueth a Justice of Peace as much as one of his Privy-Councel as it is as much to see Laws and Order kept as to make them and to keep the peace in each part of the kingdom as to advice about the peace of the whole composing differences by his skill in Law suppressing disorders by his great reputation and promoting the good of his Country by his large prudence and deep insight into
Ireton By what authority and being answered By a Vote of a Council of War grounded on an Order of Parliament by which Order all that were found in Arms were to be proceeded against as Traytors Replied Alas you deceive your selves make us Trayâ—ors you cannot but we are Conquered and must be what you please to make us and desired time to prepare himself till the morrow Which being refused telling them he desired it not out of any desire of life or fear of death for said he I scorn to ask my my life at your hands but settle his Soul and Estate He told them he should be quickly ready as after a most heavenly Prayer he was saying He had often looked death in the face and now they should see he durst dye Adding when he had pulled down his Hat opened his Breast the dwelling of Courage and Loyalty and set his Hands to his Side I am ready for you now Rebels do your worst whereat being shot in four places he fell down immediately dead THE Life and Death OF Sir GEORGE LISLE SIR George Lisle an honest Booksellers Son great streams run sometimes from muddy Springs that having Trailed a Pike in the Low Countries by keeping good Society and improving Company Ever as he would say consorting with those most by whom he might accomplish himself best By generous pleasing and naturally bounteous disposition by his great skill above his years gained by observation in the modern and ancient Militia excelling in the Command of Foot as Sir Charles Lucas did that of Horse By the great sense he had of Honor and Justice was admitted into Inferior Commands in England where his Valor without Oftentation his Just and Chearful Commands without a Surly Imperiousness rendred him so infinitely beloved and observed by his Souldiers that with his Discipline and Courage he led as in a Line upon any services through the greatest danger and difficulty that he was preferred to a Superior in which capacity he had one quality of an obliging and knowing Commander that never to the hour of his death would he Engage his Souldiers in that Action wherein he would not hazard his own person as at the last Newbery Fight before his Majesties face who then Knighted him for it leading his men in his Shirt both that they might see his Valor and it being Night discern his Person from whom they were to receive direction and courage at Brambdean-heath where he gained and kept an advantageous Hill against all Wallers Army at the first Newbery Fight where he Commanded the Forelorn-hope at Nazeby where he and the Lord Bard led the left-hand Tertia of Foot and at the two Garrisons he held with the last surrendring them with Oxford He was approved and admired for his Judgement Direction Dispatches and Chearfulness Virtues that had special influence upon every common Souldier especially in his three great Charges in each whereof he came to the Buttâ—end of the Musquet for the first whereof his Word was The Crown for the second Prince Charles and for the third The Duke of York resolving to have gone over all his Majesties Children as long as he had a Man to fight for them or there was a Rebel to fight against them Being in most of the Sallies in Colchester and having three times scowred the Leaguer with so much hazard that he was twice taken Prisoner but rescued he was to second Sir Charles Lucas as 〈◊〉 always desired to imitate him saying over his Corps How soon is a brave spirit expired we shall be together presently Dispatching some Tokens to his friends in London and expostulating with them that his life should be taken away in cold-bloud when he had saved so many of theirs in hot and praying for his Majesty and the Kingdom he entertained grim death with a sprightly countenance and heroick posture saying Now then Rebels and Traytors do your worst It will be Embalming enough to these deserving persons that King Charles the First upon the news of their death wept Monument enough that the very Parliament was amazed at it Epitaph enough that a great Man and a great Traveller too protested That he saw many dye but never any with more Souldier or Christian-like resolution THE Life and Death OF ARTHUR Lord CAPEL Father to the Right Honorable ARTHUR Earl of ESSEX HIS privacy before the War was passed with as much popularity in the Country as his more publick appearance in it was with Valor and Fidelity in the Field In our too happy time of Peace none more Pious Charitable and Munificent In these more unhappy of our differences none more Resolved Loyal and Active the people loved him so well that they chose him one of their Representatives and the King esteemed him so much that he sent for him as one of his Peers in Parliament wherein the King and People agreed in no one thing save a just kindness to my Lord Capel who was one of those Excellent Gentlemen whose gravity and discretion the King said He hoped would allay and fix the Faction to a due temperament guiding some mens well-meaning zeal by such rules of Moderation as are best both to preserve and restore the health of all States and Kingdoms keeping to the dictates of his Conscience rather than the importunities of the People to what was just than what was safe save only in the Earl of Straffords Case wherein he yielded to the publick necessity with his Royal Master but repented with him too sealing his Contrition for that miscarriage with his blood when he was more troubled for his forced Consent to that brave Persons Death than for loosing his own Life which he ventured through the first War and by his Engagement in the second For after the Surrender of Oxford he retired to his own house but could not rest there until the King was brought home to his which all England endeavouring as one man my Lord adventured himself at Colchester to extremity yielding himself upon condition of Quarter which he urged by the Law of Armes That Law that as he said on the Scaffold governeth the World and against the Law of God and Man they are his own words for keeping the Fifth Commandement dying on the Scaffold at Westminster with a courage that became a clear conscience and a resolution befiting a good Christian expressing that judicious piety in the Chamber of Meditation at his Death that he did in his Book of Meditations in his Life a piety that as it appeared by his dismission of his Chaplain and the formalities of that times Devotion before he came to the Scaffold was rather his inward frame and habit than outward ostentation or pomp from the noble Sentiments whereof as the Poet not unhappily alluding to his Arms. A Lion Rampant in Field Gules between three Crosses expresseth it Our Lyon-like Capel undaunted stood Beset with Crosses in a Field of Blood As one that affrighted death rather than
St. Nicholas Olaves Mr. Chibbald of St. Nicholas-Cole-abby Mr. Haines of Olaves Hart-street Mr. Tuke of Olaves Iewry Mr. Marbury of St. Peter Pauls-Wharse Mr. Adam of St. Bennets Pauls-Wharse known by his Sermons on St. Peter Mr. Eccop of St. Pancras Soper-lane Mr. Vochier of St. Peters Cheapside Dr. Littleton Sir Edward Littletons Brother of the Temple Mr. Pigot of St. Sepulchres Mr. Rogers of St. Botolph Bishops-gate and Finchley who dyed since his Majesties Restauration Mr. Heath of Newington Dr. Stampe of Stepney dead in exile beyond Sea Dr. Wimberly of St. Margaret Westminster all Sequestred most of them Plundred and many of them forced to fly Mr. Ephraim Vdall of St. Austines Parish Sequestred and his Bed-rid Wife turned out of doors and left in the streets by those very people for whom his Father Ephraim Vdall was condemned to be hanged in Queen Elizabeths time Musculus in Germany was the first that taught the plain but effectual method of Doctrine and Use in a Sermon Ephraim Vdall the Father added reasons to that method and Ephraim Vdall the Son first used the way of Soliloquie and Question and Answer he was a great Catechist and a great Preacher of Restitution A bold man that told the Faction in a publick Sermon at Mercers-Chappel You much desire Truth and Peace leave your lying and you may have truth lay down your undutiful Arms and you may have peace and more in another Sermon he preached at St. Pauls in the height of the Rebellion against taking up Arms on any pretence against Kings called Noli me tangere He once a year preached one Sermon to teach his people to benefit by his former Sermons as they say there is one Law wanting yet and that is a Law to put all the other good Laws in Execution Dr. Philip King younger Son to Bishop Io. King of London and Brother to Bishop H. King of Chichester whom good nature made a most facetious Companion a quaint Orator and Poet and an excellent Christian being not of those mens Religion who as the Poet told his Mistress had so much Divinity that they had no Humanity take Christianity for a Meek Charitable Peaceable and a good natured Religion sequestred from his Rectory at Botolph Billings-gate his Prebend of St. Pauls and Arch-Deaconry of Lewis and forced to fly to save his Life and when he had nothing to lose but his life he dyed 1666. Mr. Hansley preferred Chaplain to Bishop Iuxon upon a Rehearsal Sermon he Preached at St. Pauls Archdeacon of Colchester Minister of St. Christophers London and Albury in Surrey forced away through the harmless picture of good nature even because he was not spirited for the Cause as they told him He died 1666. in the Hundreds of Essex where only he could safely because there he died daily To whom I may joyn his very image honest Mr. Humes of St. Dyonis-Backchurch who was turned out as one said because they suspected his learning would not comply with their ignorant courses nor his meekness and moderation with their disobedience whose great Preface-word to his Sermons was Hear with meekness and humility the Word of God c. Well beloved for his holy Ventriloquy I mean his speaking from the heart to the heart and respected for that he dwelled not in Generalities in his Sermons but drew his discourses into particular Cases of Conscience wherein he determined the just points of their liberty what they might lawfully do to keep them from Negative Superstition and of their restraint what they might not lawfully do to keep them from boundless licentiousness Pertinent in his Quotations of Scripture in his Preaching because the Hearers might profitably retain all he Quoted and he seriously peruse them Reasons were the Pillars of his Sermons and his apt but grave Similies and Illustrations the Windows that gave the best light Mr. Sam. Stone of St. Clement East-cheap and St. Mary Abchurch Prebend of St. Pauls Sequestred Plundered and because he had a shrewd faculty in discovering to the people the fallacies the holy cheat was carried on with witness his excellent Sermon on Prov. 14. 8. The folly of fools is deceit imprisoned at Plimouth whence his letters sent to encourage his friends were those of St. Pauls very powerful though his bodily presence was weak He died 1665. Mr. Iohn Squire Vicar of St. Leonard Shoreditch for asserting Prayers more necessary than Sermons in the Sickness time for writing himself Priest which was no more as he would pleasantly observe than the contraction of the word Presbyter for spending so much time as he did much in Preaching a Rationale upon the Common Prayer saying truly that those prayers are not liked because not understood and vindicating the Government Discipline and Ceremonies of the Church for Preaching zealously against the Scots Invasion and declaring as vehemently against the English Rebellion Preaching truly and bidding them remember it when he was dead and gone that they themselves would repent it Sequestred Imprisoned 1. In Gresham Colledge with divers eminent Citizens of London 2. In New-gate 3. In the Kings-bench his Wife and Children in the mean time turned out of those doors at which he had relieved so many thousands and Plundered In his Imprisonment injoying the greatest freedom his soul as he would say being himself which could as little be confined to one place as his body could be diffused to many to confirm and comfort his Fellow-prisoners and upon all fair opportunities to undeceive his Fellow-citizens Mr. Ward of St. Leonard Foster-lane was of the same bold temper guilty of the same fault with Mr. Squire viz. calling a Spade a Spade and the Scots Traitors in his Clerum at Sion Colledge and liable to the same punishment for after a Recantation injoyned him he was Sequestred Plundered and forced to fly to Oxford where it is said he died for want He was never Plaintiff in any Suit with his Parishioners but to be Rights Defendant When his dues were detained from him he grieved more for his Parishioners had conscience than his own dammage being willing rather to suffer ten times in his Profit than once in his Title where not only his Person but his Posterity was wronged and when he must needs appeal from his Neighbors to his Superiors he proceeded fairly and speedily to a tryal that he might not vex and weary others but right himself during necessary Suits neither breaking off nor slacking Offices of courtesie to his Neighbors Dr. William Fuller a general Scholar well skilled in his own and former times a good Linguist those Languages which parted at Babel in a confusion met in his soul in a method a deep Divine and Master of all those Rules which the experience of 1600. years had gathered together for the reducing of Divinity into a method whereby a man might readily upon any occasion meet with full satisfaction in any point he desired a methodical pathetick and sententious Preacher Not like Scaliger in his
he had served the Parliament and not only so but brought him to Sir Io. Gells Company who expressed himself very sensible of the Parliaments ill requital of him and his desire to be represented as a Loyal Subject to King Charles II. and likewise offered him the model of a design and engagement entred into by the Buckingham Dorset and Kentish Gentry with Overtures of Money to go over and promote the said design with his Majesty in Sir Iohn Gells Sir Guy Palmes Sir Io. Curson Sir Thomas Whitmore Mr. Fitz Herbert and Sir Andrew Knovelaes and the aforesaid Gentlemens names appointing Col. Andrews to go to Graves-end to meet with the Kentish Gentlemen whereof none came there where the betrayed man was taken March 24. 1640. with Dr. Hâ—nry Edwards Mr. Clarke and Sir Henry Chichley who were casually with him and being brought to Lond. examined before the Council of State by Scot so punctually to each circumstance of his life his several Lodgings Names and Acquaintances Removes Abodes Correspondencies and Interests since 1646. that he saw he was betrayed and therefore set down a plain Narrative being sensible as he said that Bradshaw had set a spie upon him for four years together after which examination and being confronted by Sir Io. Gell who was trepanned as well as himself he was kept close Prisoner for sixteen weeks together in the Tower and after a Rational Learned Accurate and brave Plea in the behalf of the Freemen of England against the Authority of the High Court of Justice sentenced to be beheaded as he was on Tower-hill August 22. 1650. when as he said the fear of Isaac had banished all other fears after holy preparations for death with the assistance of Dr. Swadling the Sequestred Minister of St. Botolph Aldgate who thanked him for his three dayes converse with him excellent Letters and Discourses to his Friends for he was an exact Orator a Divine Will where having little else left he bequeathed good Instructions to and prayed for his only Daughter Mavilda Andrews a satisfactory account of his Faith and Charity in the clear way of Dialogue to the Doctor to whom he had unbosomed himself in private before the people earnest prayers both of his own and the Doctors who professed himself his Scholar rather than Instructor comforting himself in the honorable kind of his Death answerable to his Birth and Quality in the good Cause of it wherein he said his Judgment was satisfied and his Conscience setled and in the blessed issue of it hoping it would bring him to the presence of Christ King Charles and his good Lord Capel no face of the many that looked on him he observed but had something of pity in it he was enrolled in the noble Army of Martyrs with such incredible constancy that it much confirmed his friends and amazed his foes One of the greatest of whom said Alas poor innocent a better Speech from a private person than a publick Magistrate bound by his Usurped place not only to pity but protect afflicted Innocence especially in so sweet and amiable a nature as Mr. Andrews whom all good men did love and few bad men did hate all men knowing that all his fault was to use his own words a believing nature wrought upon by treacherous men whereof one I mean Bernard was hanged four years after wards at Tyburn for robbing Col. Winthorps House at Westminstâ—r Discite Iustitiam moniti In this Rubrick Mr. Beaumont an Orthodox Minister of Pontefract noted for his Loyal Resolute and constant Adherence to the Royal Cause and for setling at his House the design for surpriâ—zing Pontefract and keeping Intelligence Stating and Regulating Contributions bringing in relief spying the enemies Lines and advantages and going out in several parties to secure it when it was taken murdered by a Councel of War who took sentenced and executed him in two hours Feb. 15. 1648. deserves to have one name being an instance of an extraordinary Cruelty in one respect that with a Fanatick respect to the Law Deut. 13. 6. his nearest relation was forced to have a hand in his execution contrary to the Civil Law among Heathens Filius non torquetur in Caput parentis And Col. Iohn Morris Governor of Pontefract wichh he had with extream pains taken and with extream hardship kept the last Garrison in England for the King being forced to render himself and five more upon discretion and after two and twenty weeks imprisonment sentenced at York where he convinced them that it was against the Law of Arms that a Souldier should be tryed by a Jury and against all the Laws of the Land that a Subject should dye for acting according to an acknowledged Soveraigns Commission and yet as his Master the Earl of Strafford under whom he had his Education he was against all the Laws in being murthered August 23. 1649. Sealing his Allegiance to his Soveraign as his Soveraign had the Libertiâ—â— of his people with his bloud refusing to do an extraordinary act which like Sampson Eliah c. he was urged to do to save himself Gyants were products of the Copulations between the Sons of God and the Daughters of men Copulations unlawful not because they were too near but because they were too far a-kin and Monsters must be the issue of the horrid mixture of an extraordinary example by Commission from God and ordinary actions of meer men who alledge Heaven to justifie the mischiefs of Hell Premendo sustulit ferendo vicit Deserves another mention as honest Cornet Blackborn who after 7. years faithful service to his Soveraign for whom he prayed to his last was murthered at the same time because of the same successless attempt I say successless Our Soveraign the Copy like God the Original coming not in the tempestuous winde of War the fire of Fury or Earthquake of open enmity but in the still voice of a peaceable composition and to shew that this should not be mans work God suffered both the Wise-men of the North the Men of Kent and Cheshire Chief-men to fail in their Loyal indeavours that it might be Gods work and justly marvellous in our eyes must needs have a third mention and Captain Burleigh murdered at Winchester by Wild Feb. 10. 1647. for beating up Drum according to his Allegiance in the Isle of Wight for his Majesty when deposed by the Vote of Non-Addresses and affronted in that place which should have been his Sanctuary the disgrace of Law yet indicted for levying War against the King when Rolfe against was whom proved a design of Assassinating his Majesty was in the same time and place acquitted claims a fourth place in the bloudy Calender all Courts then casting Loyalty as the Maids Graves at Colen do in a night Vomit up all mens bodies buryed there And let Mr. Daniel Kniveton formerly a Haberdasher in Fleet-street and in the Wars one of his Majesties Messengers for bringing the Kings Seal to London
to Prorogue Michaelmas Term contrary to the Law of Nations which secure Envoyes murdered by a Councel of War over against the Old Exchange Nov. 27. 1â—43 One Mr. Benson an honest Bookseller in Fleet-street accompanying him at his death lie the last whose Memories are starved into Skeletons in History having few passages to flesh and fill up the same as their bodies were in Prison Mr. Tomkins an accomplished Person by Education being Fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford where he was Tutor to the Right Honourable the now Earl of Bristol and traveller having attended the old Earl of Bristol who commended him to be Clerk of the Queens Counsel as the ablest man in England for various Languages a posite Pen and a solid and reaching Head-piece into Spain and other parts having formed many a Confederacy against the Faction an Anti-Pym as much the Head of the sober party as the other was of the wild one both in the Election of the two last Parliaments and the management of many Affairs in them and brought this last oft engaging the City by possessing them with new grievances every day first to Petition the Parliament to an accommodation and then being enraged as he ordered it with the denyal to surprize them and their Strength Guards Lines and Magazines about London to let in the Kings Army issuing out a Commission of Array from his Majesty to that purpose to Sir G. Binion a great sufferer for his Majesty Richard Edes Mr. Hasell Marmaduke Royden Esq Thomas Blinkhorne Edward Foster Steven Bolton Robert Aldem Edward Carleton Charles Gennings William White R. Abbot Andrew King Thomas Brown Peter Pagon c. to a wonderful forwardness till his Letters to his brother-in-Brother-in-law Edm. Waller which he bid him always Copy and burn being seized discovered and brought him after a Tryal by a Court-Martial where he bravely overthrew their Authority to execution where he was very resolved near Grays-Iâ—n whereof he was Member and Mr. Challoner against the old Exchange where he had been an eminent Citizen both instances of the Italian Proverb Chi offende non perdonu moy That the offendor never forgiveth Next Mr. Thomkins many of whose name suffered for his Majesty Thomas Thomkins of Mannington Hereford Esq paid in Goldsmiths Hall 1443l 6 s. 8 d. Nathaniel Thomkins of Elmridge Worcester Gent. 208 l. 16 s. 8 d. Peregrine Thomkins London 60 l. and Mr. Challoner whose Cousin Thomas Challoner of Shrewsbery I think the admirable Greek Scholar and School-master of Shrewsbery Newport and Ruthin to whom that part of the Kingdom was very much beholding for keeping up the Principles of Loyalty which he distilled into the vast company of Gentlemen bred by him with their Learning paid 60 l. Henry Challenor of Steeple Cheydon Bucks 666 l. were murdered notwithstanding his Majesties express Letter to the contrary sent to the City of Bristol and General Forths to the Governor and the Counsel of War the brave spirited man of a large soul and great imployments Mr. Yeomans with Mr. Bouchers suddainly the time of their execution being concealed for fear of the people who out of respect to the Cause they suffered for the delivering of the City from Loans Taxes and other Oppressions to his Majesties Forces and their Persons Mr. Robert Yeomans having been Sheriff the year before May 29. 1643. giving testimony to their own Allegiance and against the Rebels proceedings out of 2 Tim. 3. Chap. 2 Pet. 2. and the Epistle of St. Iude for which they were as honorably attended to their Graves having left their Wives big with Child and many Children behind them to the mercyless Rapine of the Enemy an object of their Charity rather than Cruelty the one to Christ-Church and the other to St. Warburghs as ever Citizens were Whilst see the hand of God the Governor N. F. was not long after condemned to dye in a Counsel of War for delivering that City to Prince Rupert and the Advocate Clem. Walker dying in prison by the same power under which he acted here as did Major Hercules Langrish who gave the five Members notice of the Kings coming to the House of Commons to demand them their design being but to assert his Sacred Majesties Authority who was blasphemed there every day and to keep the City free from the Parliament Army as the King promised they should be from his I find that Io. Boucher of Bristol Merchant paid 160 l. composition THE Life and Death OF GEORGE Lord GORING Earl of Norwich DEscended from the Ancient Sussex Family of the Gorings Sheriffs of that County successively from Edward the Fourths time to King Iames bred in Sidney-colledge in Cambridge to which he was a Benefactor the second year of King Iames 1603. Subscribing I suppose upon the Importunities of his Mother much addicted to that party the Millemanus Petition about Church-government concerning the reason of which subscription King Iames used to make good sport with him till being ashamed of himself he went in Sir Francis and Sir Horace Veres Company into the Low-country wars where by his resolute attempts and good faculty in projecting either in the way of Entrenching in Garrisons or Incamping in the Field he attained to the Command of the best Regiment of Foot Veteranes all that he was very chary knowing there was a great deal of time requisite to make a brave man in which Command he continued there till he was called by his Majesty to Command against the Scots in which business and the design of bringing that Army to London 1640. and 1641. to bring the Parliament and Tumults to reason the old irreconcileable differences upon a Duel in Holland between him and my Lord Willmot made no little obstruction In the beginning of our English wars he was made Captain-Governor of the Garrison and Fort of Portsmouth where he caught the Country-men that assailed him in a Net till he was overpowered and for want of Relief by the Kings Order forced to yield and take a Pass for Holland whence using his old interest there effectually he returns December 15. with a good sum of Money great store of Armes some Piece of Ordnance and fourscore old Commanders joyning to the Earl of New-castle and rendring him formidable and assisting him in settling the Contributions of the Country till the fatal fight of Marston-moor which was begun against the Lord Gorings minde though managed in the left wing which he Commanded with success beating the right wing of Sir Tho. Fairfax and the Scots Horse upon the Lord F. and the Scots Foot with great if not too much execution after which with that incomparable Souldier Sir Richard Greenvill he laid the Plot for entrapping Essex in Lestithiel with 1500. horse stopping all provision from coming in at Saint Blase and reducing them to streights by keeping their horse and foot close together about which time making use of their distress he set on foot the Subscriptions for an accommodation August
Horse and Arms with 8. men and scorning the Civilities offered by the Parliament as it was called he repaired to his now Majesty to promote his Overtures in France Holland and the Fleet where he was in the Quality that much became him of Master of the Ceremonies attending his Majesty throughout the Scottish Treaty at Breda in a very useful way and in the Scottish regency all along to the Battel of Worcester in a very prudent and active way whence escaping wonderfully as his Majesty did taken with Lesley about Newport he served his Majesty in a well-managed Embassie in Denmarke where besides present supplies for his Majesty he made a League Offensive and Defensive between the Dane and Dutch against the English and in a brave Regiment which with the Honourable Lord Gerards c. lay 1657. quartered about the Sea-Coasts as if they intended an Invasion Besides that both beyond Sea and at home he was one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy-Counsel dying 1665. Leaving this Character behind him That he had a great dexterity in representing the worst of his Majesties Affairs with advantage to those Princes and People that measured their favours to him by the possibility they apprehended of his returning them so keeping their smiles who he knew if they understood all would have turned them into srowns And the ancient Barony of Wentworth extinct in him as the Earldom of Cleaveland was afterwards in his Father The Right Honorable Iames Stanley Lord Strange and Earl of Derby c. Who with his Ancestors having for their good services by their Soveraigns been made Kings of Man did often preserve their Soveraigns Kings of England Our good Lord being King of Hearts as well as Man by his Hospitality which they said expired in England at the death of Edward Earl of Derby by his being a good Land-lord as most are in Lancashire and Cheshire Letting their Land at the old Rent people thriving better on his Tenements than they did on their own Free-holds by his remarkable countenancing both of Religion and together with the continued obligations of his Ancestors Iustice gained upon the Kings Leige-people so far that he attended his Majesty as he said on his death for the settlement of Peace and the Laws with 40000 l. in money 5000. Armes with suitable Ammunition 1642. leaving his Son the Honorable Lord Strange now Earl of Derby as Leiutenant of Lancashire and Cheshire to put the Commission of Array in execution against Sir Thomas Stanley Mr. Holland Mr. Holcraft Mr. Egerton Mr. Booth Mr. Ashton Mr. Moore July 15. making the first warlike attempt wherefore he was the first man proclaimed against by the men at Westminster against Manchester with 4000. men whom afterwards the Earl disposed of several ways particularly to Latham-house which the Heroick Countess not to be paralelled but by the Lady Mary Winter kept thirteen Weeks against one siege 1644. and above a twelve month against another 1645. never yielding her Mansion House until his Majesty did his Kingdom Decem. 4. 1645. The Noble Earl in the mean time attending Prince Rupert in Cheshire Lancashire particularly at Bolton where he saved many a mans life at the taking of it 1644. and lost his own 1651. and York-shire especially at Marston-moor where he rallied his Country-men three times with great courage and conduct saying Let it never be said that so gallant a Body of Horse lost the Field and saved themselves Whence he escaped to the Isle of Man watching a fair opportunity to serve his Majesty to which purpose entertaining all Gentlemen of quality whose misfortune cast them that way and so keeping in Armes a good body of Horse and Foot he seized several Vessels belonging to the Rebels and by Sir Iohn Berkenhead kept constant correspondence with his Majesty at whose summons when he marched into England 1651. he landed in Lancashire and joyned with him adding 2000. Gentlemen with 600. of whom he staid there after his Majesty to raise the Country but being over-powered before he got his Levies into a consistency after a strange resistance which had proved a Victory had the gallant men had any Reserves he Retired much wounded to Worcester at which Fight exposing himself to any danger rather than the Traitors mercy he hardly escaped shewing his Majesty the happy hiding place at Boscobel which he had had experience of after the defeat in Lancashire and there conjuring the Penderells by the love of God by their Allegiance and by all that is Sacred to take care of his Majesty whose safety he valued above his own venturing himself with other Noblemen after Lesley lest he might discover his Majesty if he staid with him and his entire Body of Horse with whom he was taken at Newport and notwithstanding Quarter and Conditions given him against the Laws and Honor of the Nation judged by mean Mechanicks at Chester being refufed to make the Ancient Honorable Sacred and Inviolable Plea of Quarter and Commission before the great Mechanicks at Westminster and thence with the Tears and Prayers of the People all along the Road who cryed O sad day O woful day shall the good Earl of Derby the ancient Honor of our Country dye here conveyed to Bolton where they could not finde a great while so much as a Carpenter or any man that would so much as strike a Nail to erect the Scaffold made of the Timber of Latham-house October 15. 1651. At which place 1. After a servent and excellent prayer for his Majesty whose Justice Valor and Discretion he said deserved the Kingdom if he were not born to it the Laws the Nation his Relations and his own soul to which he said to the company God gave a gracious answer in the extraordinary comforts of his soul being never afterwards seen sad 2. After an heavenly discourse of his carriage towards God and God's dispensation towards him at which the Souldiers wept and the people groaned 3. After a charge he laid to his Son to be dutiful to his Mother tender to his distressed Brothers and Sisters studious of the peace of his Country and careful of the old Protestant Religion which he said to his great comfort he had settled in the Isle of Man he being himself an excellent Protestant his enemies if he had any themselves being Judges 4. And after a Tumult among the Souldiers and People out of pitty to this noble Martyr with a sign he gave twice the Heads-man first not heeding whereupon the good Earl said Thou hast done me a great deal of wrong thus to disturb and delay my bliss He died with this character thrown into his Coffin as it was carried off the Scaffold with the hideous cries and lamentations of all the Spectators Bounty Wit Courage all here in one Lye Dead A Stanleys Hand Veres Heart and Cecils Head The Right Honorable Henry Somerset Lord Marquiss of Worcester A Nobleman worthy of an honorable mention since King Charles
to what their Father Sir Everarâ— Digby engaged in the Powder-plot forfeited to King Iames. A Gentleman of a strong body and brain witness his Book of Bodies and the Immortality of the Soul his soul being one of those few souls that understand themselves together with his suddain Notes on Religio Medici of a great correspondence see Dr. Wallis Commercium Epistoli Of a fluent invention and discourse as appears from his long discourse at Montpelier in France and his entertainments of the Ladies of the several Nations he travelled in of a great faculty in Negatiations both at France Rome Florence and most of the States of Italy of one of the Princes whereof it is reported that having no Children he was very willing his Wife should bring him a Prince by Sir Kenelm whom he imagined the just measure of perfection The rest learn from this Epitaph on his Tomb 1665. when he died and was buried with his incomparable Lady at Christ-Church London to which he had been a great Benefactor Vnder this Tomb the Matchless Digby lyes Digby the Great the Valiant and the Wise This Ages Wonder for his Noble Parts Skilled in six Tongues and learned in all the Arts Born on the day he Died the eleven of June And that day bravely fought at Scanderoon It 's Rare that one and the same day should be His day of Birth of Death of Victory R. F. 3. Colonel Iohn Digby the excellent Archer and Improver of Aschams Toxophelus but many talk of Robin Hood that never shot in his Bow 4. Mr. Kenelm Digby eldest Son of Sir Kelnelm who was then imprisoned at Winchester-house slain at Saint Neots in Huntingtonshire in whose Pocket was found they say a Lock and Key with a Chain of ten Links which a Flea could draw for which certainly he had been with The Little Smith of Nottingham Who doth the work that no man Can. 5. Sir Io. Digby of Mawfield-woodhouse County of Nottingham paid composition 1058 l. and George Digby of London Stafford Esq. 1440 l. Martial men it is observed made for and worn with her began and expired with Queen Elizabeth peaceable and soft spirited men with King Iames and honest publick-spirited Patriots with King Charles I. 6. Sir Herbert and Sir Thomas Lunsford both of Lunsford Sussex the first said by the enemies to be the fairer the â—ther the shrewdest adversary the reason why the ones abilities was drowned by the others activity one grain of the practical man was in all ages too heavy for a pound of the barely knowing both the biggest men though twins you could likely see to wherefore Sir Thomas was feigned by the Brethren a devourer of Children both bred in the Dutch and Germane Wars both in command in the Scotch war Sir Thomas was Lieutenant of the Tower 1639. and displaced to please a jealous multitude a Prisoner there 1641 for attempting as was pretended to draw up a body of Horse and seize the Magazines at Kingston upon Thames His first encounter for his Majesty was at Westminster upon the Rabble that came down to cry no Bishops where he and some other Gentlemen drawing upon them scattered them as he did them often afterward in the course of the Wars when they were modelled into Armies losing his Brother Col. H. Lunsford by a Canon-shot at Bristow Iuly 26. 1643. with Col. Trivanian and Col. Bucke who make me unwilling to believe the common Proverb That he was Cursed in his Mothers belly that was killed with a Canon though it is sad to see Valour subjected to chance and the bravest man fall sometimes by the most inconsiderable hand It was their Fathers observation in Queen Elizabeths time that God so equally divided the advantage of weapons between Spain and us that as their Bilboa Steel makes the best Swords so our Sussex Iron makes the best Guns THE Life and Death OF EDWARD Lord LITLETON Lord Keepter of the Great Seal of England ELdest Son to Sir Edward Littleton of Mounslow in Shrop-shire one of the Justices of the Marches and chief Justice of Northwales himself bred in Christ-Church Oxford and at the Temple in London one of the Justices in North-wales Recorder of London Sollicitor to King Charles the I. Term Mich. Anno 15. Car. 1. Serjeant at Law and chief Justice of the Common-Fleas 1639 40 Privy-Counsellor and Lord-Keeper and Baron of Mouâ—slow 1640 41. Honors he gained by his discreet management of the Duke of Buckinghams Charge and other Affairs in Parliaments 1625. 1626. 1627. 1628. between the jealousie of the people and the Honor of the Court that Sir I. Finch would say of him He was the only man for taking things by the Right handle and Sir Edward Cook that he was a well-poized and weighed man and deserved by sending the Seal first and then going himself after it to the King at York whence his presence did but countenance the Rebellion in London for the Lord Willoughby of Parham pleaded in answer to a summons sent him by his Majesty that he was about setling the Militia according to the Votes of Parliament passed as legal by Sir Edward Litleton Lord Keeper and Sir Iohn Banks as Lord chief Justice An action of important service to his Majesty not only confirming all his proceedings with the right Seal but likewise occasioning the Adjournment of the Term the suing of all Original Writs from Oxford the invalidity of unsealed Parliament Proclamations the impossibility of issuing out new Writs of Election for Members of Parliament and thereupon the danger of the dissolution of that Parliament especially since the making of the new Seal was a matter of so dangerous a consequence that a Member of their own desired the Serjeant that drew up the Orâ—â—nance for the new Seal not to be made too hasty in that business before he consulted the Statute 25 Edw. 3. Where counterfeiting of the Great Seal is declared High Treason To which the Serjeant replyed That he purposed not to counterfeit the old Seal but to make a new His very name carryed an hereditary Credit with it which plaineth out the way to all great actions his Vertue being Authorized by his Nobility and his Undertakings enobled by his Birth gained that esteem which meaner men attain not without a large compass of time and Experience Worthless Nobility and ignoble worth lie under equal disadvantage neither was his Extraction greater than his Parts his Judgment being clear and piercing his Learning various and useful his Skill in the Maxims of our Government the Fundamental Laws of this Monarchy with its Statutes and Customs singular his Experience long and observing his Presence and Eloquence Powerful and Majestick and all beâ—itting a Statesman and a Lord Keeper who was besides a Souldier For I think these Verses were made upon him In D. E. L. Iudicem Chiliarcham Truncatus manibus ne serret munera Iudex Olim oculis captus ne caperetur erat Vteris ambobus
the life of Religion yet so common that it is passed into a Proverb After a good Dinner let uo sit down and backbite our Neighbours in pressing graces that do most good and make least noise in discreet reproofs of sin in particular without reflections upon the person especially if absent meddling not with the peoples duty before the Magistrate nor with the Magistrates duty before the people the first looking like indiscreet flattery and the other tending to dangerous mutiny in bringing down general indefinite things as getting Christ uniting to Christ to minute and particular discourses in guiding the peoples Zeals by good Rules respecting not their persons complying not with their curiosity entertaining them not out of their own Parishes nor appealing to their judgment nor suffering them to talk about questions foment divisions pretend conscience keep up names of Sects but instructing them to fill up their time with serious employments and conferring with them in the spirit of meekness He died Aug. 1667. These are the Martyrs of the Royal Cause the best Cause and the best Men as accomplished examples not only of Allegiance but of all vertues as far as nature can go improved by grace and reason raised by faith as much above its self as it is of its self above sense who though dead are not the major part as the dead are reckoned of his Majesties good subjects there being as many living that suffered as exemplary with him as now they act under him his Court his Council his Courts of Justice his Church his Inns of Courts his Universities and Colledges his Schools his Armies and Navies his Forts and Cities being filled as the Emperors charges were of old as Origen and Tertullian I. Martyr and other Apologists and Champions for Christian Religion urge with Confessors Indeed there is no person in the Kingdom but what either ventured his Life or Estate for him or oweth his life to him and I hope none but woâ—ld sacrifice all they have to support his Soveraignty who have been secured in all they have by his Pardon and Mercy And I do the rather believe it because there was not a Worthy Person a few Regicides too infamous for a mention or History excepted that engaged against these Honorable Persons before mentioned but at last complied with them yea which is an unanswerable Argument of a good Cause yielded to their Reasons when they had conquered their Persons being overcome by the Right and Justice of that Cause the other supports of which had overthrown being the Converts of afflicted Loyalty and chusing rather to suffer in that good Cause and with those Heroick Persons that they had conquered than to triumph in the Conquest As I Sir Iohn Hotham and his son who begun the War shutting the King out of Hull before the War was ended were themselves by their Masters shut out not only of that Town and all other Commands but out of Pardon too and having spilt more bloud than any two men as one of them confessed to serve the Faction in the North 1642. 1643. had their own spilt in a barbarous manner the Father being cruelly Reprieved to see the Sons Execution by it at Tower-hill 1644. being denyed that Justice as one oppressed by him at Hull told Sir Iohn he should which they had denyed others and obstructed Sir Iohn finding that true which his Father to check his troublesom inclination told him viz. That he should have War enough when the Crown of England should lye at Stake Father and Son Root and Branch falling together by that Arbitrary Power which they had first of any man avowed for corresponding with the Lord Digby who came to Hull as a Souldier of Fortune in a Pinnace by design suffered to be taken to work upon Sir Iohn and draw off that Garrison A great instance of Providence that that Party should hazzard the dividing of their Heads from their Bodies for the King in his distress who divided the hearts of the people from him in his prosperity Nay 2. Sir Matthew Boynton who betrayed and took Sir Io. Hotham his own Brother in Law the nearness of which relation being the umbrage to the design at Hull 1643. was slain for the King at Wiggan Lanâ— 1651. after he as willingly made one of exiled Majesties retinue in Holland 1647 1648 1649 1650. as he was a member of the exile Congregations 1637 1638 1639 1640. 3. Sir Alexander Carew who had been on the other side so unhappy that in the business of the Earl of Stafford when Sir Bevil Greenvil sitting in the same place with him in the House as serving for the same County Cornwal bespoke him to this purpose Pray Sir let it not be said that any Member of our County should have a hand in this ominous business and therefore pray give your vote against this Bill Sir Alexander replied to this effect If I were sure to be the next man that should suffer upon the same Scaffold with the same Axe I would give my consent to the passing of it For endeavouring to deliver Plymouth whereof he was Governour with himself to his Majesty was as some report upon the instigation of his Brother Io. Carew who suffered miserably afterwards Octob. 1660. beheaded at Tower-hill Decemb. 1644. 4. Sir H. Cholmley as I take it of Whitby Yorkâ— that kept Scarborough for the Parl â—took it with Brown Bushels assistance 1643â— for the King upon whose Royal Consort he attended with 3000 convert Horse and Foot which cost him 10000 l. besides a long and tedious exile 5. The Right Honorable H. Earl of Holland a younger Brother of the Earl of Warwicks raised to that great Honour Estate and Trust being Justice in Eyre of his Majesties Forests on this side Trent Groom of the Stool Constable of Windsor Castle Steward of the Queens Majesties Lands and Revenues by King Iames and King Charles I. for the comliness of his person the sweetness and obligingness of his behaviour upon which last score he was imployed Ambassador in the Marriage Treaty of France 1624. favoured the Faction so far that my Lord Conway writ to the Archbishop of Canterbury from the North 1640. that Warwick was the Temporal head of the Puritans and Holland the Spiritual that he was their Patron and Intelligencer at Court their friend at the Treaty with the Scots at York and London and their second in their Petition at York where the Petition of the Lords was no more than a Transcript of that of the Londoners And that he chose rather to part with his places at Court than when the King sent to him to leave that party in Parliament whom yet afterwards he saw reason so far to desert that upon his request they refused him leave to attend the Earl of Essex into the Field and that denied he took leave to go with the R. H. the E. of Bedford to the King at Oxford 1643. to act for him in
their name g Observe all the practices and commotions they talk of as of late raised for the King were but the endeavours of those very men that first employed the Army against the King to rescue the King and themselves from the power of that Army and whereas these wretches say the Parliament Order the Kings Tryal it was the Parliament that encouraged all those tumults and commotions 47 48. to deliver the King from that Tryal a By Dendy the Kings own Serjeant at Arms Son b Not being permitted to breakfast being reviled all the way by P. and â—thers that rid by him the King being put upon a loan 〈◊〉 Iade a He was born so b He was a free Monarch c What his design and theirs were the world hath lately seen d He dâ—ed because he would not allow an Arbitrary Power and they killed him by an Arbitrary Power e He levied war to defend a King and they to murder one f Have dare they take away his life for levying war in his own defence against the Seditious part of the Parliament and 〈◊〉 Army of Rebels when these the Parliaments sworn servants lay violent handâ— on the whole Parliament to take away his life He would have punished two or three rebellious Parliament-men they turn out the whole House he fought the traiterous Army they senâ— against him these Members of that Army turn out those they fought under he must be a Traytor against the Parliament and yet within a fortnight before they set on his assassinatioâ— they break trouble and abuse that Parliament as if it were Treason to be against the Parliament when they were against the King but no Treason to be against them when now they were for him a With the danger of her life b Pointing at Col. Cobbet that brought him from the Isle of Wight where he said be Treated with many honorable Lords Gentlemen and is this the end of the Treaty c Both parts of the impudent Assertion equally â—rue 1. That he was now Iudged by the People and that he was at first chosen by them a On Sunday whâ—n its against all Canons to faâ—t none ever doing so but these and the Scots Prestiâ—â—s who would needs Proclaim a Fast that day because the King designed to Feast the Embassador of Denmark b As they had Voted it Ordering c That ordered that none should make any disturbance on pain of death d C. Downs that thought it fit the King should be heaâ—d by the Lords and Commons a Wherein â—e was earnest not for his own concerns but for those of the kingdom b Though he offered much â—o say for the peace of the kingdom which if the meanest man had offered he should have been heard c This was their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the Commons of England in Parliament appointed them a Court whereas they neither did iâ— nor â—â—uld do it a All dâ—claring for a Peâ—sonal Tâ—â—aty a Secluding 140. Members b Imprisoning the Chief Citizens â—iding triumphâ—nâ—y through the streets of London and seizing the Tower c. c On shipboard in Summer timeâ— others sold slaves d Suffering nasty Confinements and ignominous Tortures The method leading to the Kings death a C. Downs disturbed the their proceedings declaring that what the King offered should be heard b Declaring that it was contrary to the known Laws and Customs of England that the King should be brought to Tryal a I. B. Dr. P. Character of him b Dr. D formerly History Professor of Cambridge set there by F. Brookes where reading in the stift lines of Tacitus he discovered so much of a popular spirit that he was complaiâ—ed of about his dâ—scourses of 〈◊〉 three sorts of government a Set on by the Instructors of their villaâ—ny Hereabouts he was stopped being not permitted to speak any more of Reasons a Telling them that it was not a slight thing that they were about a A motion so reasonable that Colonel Downs could not but presse them to hearken to it so far that they had adjourned not to consider what the King had offered but to check Col. D. into a compliance b They utterly refused his Queen that liberty a After the 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Bishop for his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 man replied that it was not 〈◊〉 but the Churches choice for the dâ—y Whereat his majesty was much comforted b Meaning Col. Thomiâ—son a Strafford b Pointing to Dr. Juxon c Turning to some Gentlemen that wrote d Meaning if he did blunt the edge a Pointing to Dr. Juxon b It is thought to give it to the Prince a They had provided I 〈◊〉 Gâ—appâ—es to pull him down b They sold Chips of the Block and Sands discoâ—â—red with his bloud c Others Proclaimed his Son in the face of his Fathers murtherers a Impâ—isoâ—ing the Bishop of London and searching Pocketâ—s and Cloaths b See M. Iconoclastes a Though they were seign to carry it aâ— fit had been discovered by chance by walking on the hollow part of it b The place exactly answering the designation of his 〈◊〉 in last Will and Testament and lying under an Herse that lay there all Q Elizabeths reign besides that no Subject had newer been buried in that Qâ—ire 1 〈…〉 a at London House 2 The 〈◊〉 it raised him All these passages are transcribed out of his Graces own Diurnal His good works doue a With new Priviledge as large as those in Cambridg since 11. the eighth hâ—s time b Wherein be did intend to hang as great and as tuneable a Ring of Bells as any are in the world a Only the irregular marrying of W. E D. E. M Dec. 26. 1605. St. Stephens day b Printed at Oxford 1666 His sufferings Dr. P. life K. Charles § The crimes laid to his Charge and reasons of his sufferings a And Homil p. 64 65. and Teâ—tul de Oâ—ig errot c. 2. 17. Statuse 3 lid 6. 10. b As ancient at Constancines time sec Polyd Virg. de Invent. ceruâ—â— l. 6. 2. Durand Ration c. a And the Preces privatae in Queen Elizâ—b time b And it was pretly thâ—â— swere 〈◊〉 was offended much the new Crucifix whereas he 〈◊〉 no notice of the old crucifix that wathere many years before See Antiq. Bâ—ic p. 33. 102. c One swore against him that a man bowed to the Virgin Maries Pictures over St. Maries door in Oxon. a Exod. 40 9 10 11. 1 Kings 8. 1 Chron 5 6 â—â— Chron 34. 8 Ezra 6 15 16 17. b Euseb. Eccles. Hist. 10. 3 de vita Coudant â— 4. 40. vid. Câ—â—â—it de Coâ—sect Eccles. Inst. ti cod l. ◠〈◊〉 5. de Sacro saâ—ctâ—â— Ecclesus c Doctor Bound Bradâ—um and Thâ— ashâ— then 〈◊〉 Iewish opâ—â—â—â—s d Iâ—stiâ— l. 2. c. 8. §. 34. e V d. Arâ—â—ii problemata de Encaeniis Grat de Conserev dist 1. f For which trey searched the 〈◊〉 book b Some his
Chaplains some the Bishop of Londons c For so they are when licenced d As one Howes prayes to God to pâ—â—serve the Prince from being bâ—â—d up in Popery whereof thâ—â—e was gâ—eat fear e Deus maâ—ura gratia f Though given to Bishops of former times at appears in St. Cyprian and St. Augustines Letters g Note that Windebanke was at disâ—â—â—ve from the A. B. of 〈◊〉 h Reply to fither p. 388 a See his Dâ—otions His excellent Defence of himself 1. His General Speech a His Tâ—yal was revivâ—d upon theiâ— sâ—cond Invasiâ—n b Making the R. W. sir 〈…〉 his 〈◊〉 his Executor a The Commens would have had him 〈◊〉 drawn and quartered because he refused the â—â—â—istance of Mr. Marshall b Observe that he had set 〈◊〉 of prayer 〈◊〉 every conâ—â—â— he â—ell intoâ— See his 〈◊〉 c His facâ— was so â—udoy that they thought he had painted it untill they saw it turn as pale as ashes instantly aâ—â—er the blow A Prophetical 〈◊〉 exactly fallen out to be 〈◊〉 〈…〉 〈◊〉 Gâ—eces Châ—ratler of K. Charles the Maâ—yr Libâ— De vitae contempt cop 4. a Vix adductus uâ— celeberrimum contraâ— â—ishâ—rum librum suo â—der et nomine a Libri quoâ— Amalâ—hra sibillâ— Tarquiniâ— venâ—m pâ—aebuit b Pellis Amaltheae Caprae in qua dicitur Jupiter res humanas escripsisle a Having so when King James come in an opportunity to shew himself b He Read the Lecture Founded by Mr. May. 13. 〈◊〉 a 43 Eliz. b See the Free-holders Grand Inquest ☞ a Aâ— to Dr. Rainbow Bishop of Carlisle a He 〈◊〉 â—beâ— it at Northampton Assizes 16â—â— a Dissertaâ—â—â—â— pale ad Do 〈…〉 to the Câ—â—loâ—â—ian 〈◊〉 lictiones de 〈…〉 Hoard about Fâ—â—e-will b Wâ—ere â—is Ancestors had continued in a Worshipful de grâ—e from Sir John Dave 〈◊〉 who lived in the time 〈…〉 c 〈◊〉 tribus 〈…〉 Ovid de â—â—illibus l. 4 Eâ—â—g 10 a Boyer 〈◊〉 confâ—ssâ—â— thaâ— Doctor Davenants experience and skill 〈◊〉 Laws and Histo its gaze them 〈◊〉 for the better â—deâ—â—â—â— of then Deâ—ates and Votes and iâ— was he that told A. B. L. when he would have Excommuniâ— caâ—d Bishop Goodman upon a third admonition pronounced by him three quarters of an hour in these words My Lord of Glocester 1 admonish you to subscribe c. that he doubted that procedure was not agreâ—able to the Laws of the Church in general or this Land in particular whereupon his Lordship thanked him and desisted b When going out from a Bishops house where he met with loose company and the Bishop proâ—â—ered to light him down slairs My Lord my Lord said he Let us light others by ouâ— unblameable conversation though otherwise more sensible of his own infirmities than others being humble and therefore charitable when a Childe and soothed by the Servants that John did not so or so c. he would say it was John only did so c Submitting humbly to His Majesty about the Sermon against the Kings Declaration for silencing all Disputes about the five Articles 1636. Saying that he might be undiscreet but he would not be disobedient d Therefore once he would not ride on Sunday 〈◊〉 to Court though sent for a An Eâ—â—â—dom that belongâ—â— to the Lord of Arundel 〈◊〉 b His incestor John Howard created Duke of Norfolk by Rich. III. July 4. 1483. 1 Rich III. a See the 〈…〉 upon the Lord Sâ—encer b Nâ—blâ— communicated to â—ll ingâ—niâ—us persons by the Honourable II. Howard of Norfolk greater in his own worth than in any 〈◊〉 a Tertulli â—n b When he or his 〈◊〉 any occasion to Hank he would nâ—t suffer his retainers to break any Hedge but his own without sufficient satisfaction April 6. 1584. ☞ a Tertullian a Mark at last tall people may be Porters to Lords saith one that â—elt the effects of moderation very little people may be Dwarss to Ladies whiles men of a middle stature may tâ—ant Masters many notorious for extremities may finde many to advance them whilst moderate men state few to Prefer them a 〈…〉 a With the â—roward thou shalt learn frowardness a 〈…〉 b Ezek 20. 40. c Deut. 32. 2. d Where 〈◊〉 Spight a bad name of a good man was his Master e Dr. Bâ—wlâ— and Dr. Westfield at Mâ—â—y le Bow in Cheapside f His observation of Curacies His. Advice a Dâ—â— Hâ—ylin obâ—â—rveth that Hâ—â—â—â— been a â—â—al Letter 〈◊〉 England b Hâ—â— inclinâ—tion His Education Thirteen benâ—fits of a good Education a His â—â—rriage 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 b At that battel whereof 1500. English under Sir Hor. and Sir F. Vere every man was hurt a Lincolnâ—shire being the Aâ—â—â—y of England b The third part of Lincoln-shire c At the Dutch did by Grotius his Maâ—e Liberum Oâ—e â—â—ssage â—onteâ—niâ—g him 〈◊〉 very â—emaâ—kâ—ble vizâ— That a 〈◊〉 being maintained by â—is Sâ—queâ—tred Loâ—d and upon sâ—me tâ—ouble of conscience offâ—â—ing 〈…〉 what he had â—â—â—ten by it had this answer That if he was so conscious as to make restituâ—â—â— oâ— he would be so â—oble as to give it hâ—â— being as willing to maintain a good work as thâ—se that Sequeâ—â—red him a The Lady Sophia wise to Sir R. Chawoâ—seth a His opinion is thâ—â— souls were equal b Master Stroud whose Speech most provoked him a Called so because it was fought near a Village called Keinton in Warwickshire b Daughter â—o the R. Hon. the â—arl of Suffolk a It s very observablâ— that he drew Hazlerigge and others into a disadvantageous Engagement in the Devizes by his provoking and tempting Forâ—orn a Maxima parâ— peccatorum tolletur sed peccatorum testii asâ—â—deat Sept. 24. 1645. a Thâ—se Lodging at Oxford was the Râ—â—â—â—zâ—cus of all the Eminent Wits Divines Philosophers Lawyers Historians and Politicians of that time b When be with others went upon the King summons to York and there testified publickly the Kings gracious intentions and vowed to stand by him who stood for the Liberties and Laws of the Kingdom with his life and fortune he was the Author of most of those Declarations the quickness whereof the eneâ—y admired as they felt their efficacy he writing generally twenty four or thirty Printed sheets a week with 〈◊〉 dispatch from May 1. 10 October 1. c In an unanswerable Treatise of Infallibility seconded by Dr. Hamond d In his Aâ—liâ—us wherein he condescâ—nded to undecâ—iâ—e the people as the head boweth to take a thorne cut of the foot No Eminent Schoâ—ar or sober Nobleman that did frequent his well-oraâ—â—red house came to observe the method of his Learned and his Lociâ—s piâ—us Study their â—xect hâ—urs their strict Devotion and exemplary Dyet My Lords hoâ—se being like Theodosiusâ—is â—is Ceviâ— a 〈…〉 Perfection e 〈◊〉 first Newbury fighâ— Sept. 20 164◠〈…〉 Bâ—lâ—t f In Richards Parliament as it was called joyning with the Commonwealths-men against the Vsu â—ed Monarchy to make way for the true one g His Religiouss Mother the Laâ—y Faulkland
him a blow with his Launce saying That he had hired him to Fight against Alexander and not to Rail Only he would innocently say sometimes that he would make bold to deal with the wild and skittish multitude that would not indure their Riders but rushed like the horse to the battel as Alexander did with his Bucâ—phalus take them a little by the Bridle and turn them to the Sun and light Two things rendred his enemies willing if it had been possible to oblige him Cum talis sit utinam noster esset and when that would not be resolved to ruin him For it was a Maxime then a godly and good Malignant was the most dangerous Malignant I remember the Waldenses are set for the greatest enemies to Rome upon three accounts 1. Because they were ancient 2. Because they were Scripture-skilled 3. Because they were very godly 1. His Religion practised to as great a height by him as it was pretended by them 2. His Charity his Hands being every day his Executors and his Eyes his Overseers that relieved poor people as fast as the Conspiracy made them so his goodness finding as many ways to exercise his charity as the men who destroyed Hospitals and made men poor had to make objects of it they not undoing men as fast as he succoured them especially with his counsel to poor Loyalty which carried Fee enough in its very looks to him who thought it honour enough to be Advocate to the King of Heaven as he had been to his dread Soveraign and so bound ex officio to be of Counsel Whence besides the common blessing of good Lawyers That they seldome dye without an Heir or making a Will there accrewed I cannot tell whether more comfort to himself more honour to his afflicted cause or more shame to his malicious adversaries who to use Nazianzen's words when they persecuted him persecuted virtue it self which with his unconfined Soul making the man he might be Imprisoned but not Restrained or if Restrained Cloistered rather than Imprisoned as an holy Anchorite rather than an Offendor retiring from a sad world and not forced from it where when alone never less alone not the suffering but the cause making the punishment as well as the Martyr he thought his body always a streighter prison to his soul than any prison could be to his body In fine he commended his prison for the same reason that Sir Iohn Fortescue commended the Inns of Court Quod confluentium turba studentis meditantis quietem perturbare non possit But I will cloath his free thoughts in the closest restraint with the generous Expressions of a worthy Personage that suffered deeply in those times and injoys only the conscience of having so suffered in these BEat on proud Billows Boreas blow Swell curled Waves high as Iove's roof Your incivility doth show That Innocence is tempest proof Though surly Nereus frown my Thoughts are calm Then strike Affliction for thy wounds are balm That which the World miscalls a Goal A Private Closet is to me Whilst a good Conscience is my Bail And Innocence my Liberty Locks Bars and Solitudes together met Make me no Prisoner but an Anchorit I whilst I wisht to be retir'd Into this Private Room was turn'd As if their Wisdoms had Conspir'd The Salamander should be Burn'd The Cynick hugs his Poverty The Pelican her Wilderness And 't is the Indian's Pride to be Naked on Frozen Cancasus Contentment cannot smart Stoicks we see Make Torments easie to their Apathy These Menacles upon my Arm I as my Mistris's favours wear And for to keep my Ankles warm I have some Iron Shackles there These Walls are but my Garrison this Cell Which men call Goal doth prove my Cittadel So he that strook at Iason's Life Thinking he had his purpose sure By a malicious friendly Knife Did only wound him to a Cure Malice I see wants wit for what is meant Mischief oft times proves favour by th' event I 'm in this Cabinet lock't up Like some High Prized Margaret Or like some great Mogul Or Pope Am Cloystered up from publick sight Retirement is a piece of Majesty And thus proud Sultan I 'm as great as thee Here Sin for want of Food must starve Where tempting Objects are not seen And these Strong Walls do only serve To keep Vice out and keep Me in Malice of late's grown Charitable sure I 'm not Committed but I 'm kept Secure When once my Prince Affliction hath Prosperity doth Treason seem And to make smooth so tough a Path I can learn Patience from him Now not to suffer shews no Loyal Heart When Kings want Ease Subjects must bear a Part. Have you not seen the Nightingale A Pilgrim koopt into a Cage How doth she Chant her wonted Tale In that her Narrow Hermitage Even then her Charming Melody doth prove That all her Boughs are Trees her Cage a Grove My Soul is free as the Ambient Air Although my Baser Part 's Immur'd Whilest Loyal Thoughts do still repair T' Accompany my Solitude And though Immur'd yet I can Chirp and Sing Disgrace to Rebels Glory to my King What though I cannot see my King Neither in his Person or his Coin Yet contemplation is a Thing That renders what I have not Mine My King from me what Adamant can part Whom I do wear Engraven on my Heart I am that Bird whom they Combine Thus to deprive of Liberty But though they do my Corps confine Yet maugre Hate my Soul is Free Although Rebellion do my Body Binde My King can only Captivate my Minde OF THE LOYAL FAMILY OF THE BERKLEYS JOHN Lord BERKLEY IT is reported of the Roman Fabii no less numerous than valiant three hundred and sixty Patricians flourishing of them at once that they were all engaged in one Battel one onely excepted who being under age to bear arms was absent It is recorded of the Family of the Hayes in Scotland in Edward the First 's time that they were all in the Battel at Duplin-Castle except a Child then in his Mothers womb Let it pass to Posterity that the whole Family of the Berkleys were sooner or later involved with his Sacred Majesty in the miseries of the late times and therefore with reason do many of them partake in the happiness of these For besides the foresaid Judge there were several other Honourable Persons of this Name who descended from Kings for their first Ancestor was Son to Harding King of Denmark whence Fitz-Harding the ancient Sir-name of all the Family formerly and the Title of Honour to a Noble Branch of it now and therefore were resolved to hazard all in the Cause of the best King In the List of whose faithful followers as few of more ancient Nobility Robert Harding their Ancestor being made Baron Berkley by King Henry the Second so few of more untainted Loyalty As 1. Sir Iohn Berkley since Lord Berkley much he did by his Interest in Somerset-shire and Devon-shire more in
Person most by his Care and Discipline two things he had a special care of Pay and Law his word was Pay them well and hang them well All he had himself was bestowed on the quarrel he judging it madness to keep an Estate with the hazard of that Cause which if miscarrying all miscarried with it if succeeding all was wrapped up in it In all meetings about the King's Affairs where he met with scruples he pressed the doing and not the disputing of the King's Commands because otherwise Kings before they leavie an Army of Souldiers they must leavie an Army of Casuists and Confessors to satisfie each scrupulous Souldier in the perplexed and complicated grounds of War and that to little purpose too the men of scruples being generally the most cowardly withal This Gentleman having an excellent rule viz. That the Commands of Majesty if not immediately without any tedious inferences contrary to the Law of God and Nature were not to be disputed A Rule that quickly satisfied all honest men and as quickly silenced those that were otherwise inclined He behaved himself in the West 1. Keeping the Countrey from Free-quarter 2. Stopping the Inroads of the Parliaments Forces thither 3. Keeping open their Trade 4. Keeping a good correspondence among their Gentry that Septemb. 4. 1643. when Exeter was delivered up to Prince Maurice he was made Governour of it keeping it and the Countrey round about it in a very remarkable degree of quietness and subjection and easily advancing for three years 50000 l. a year for the King's Service until it pleased God in wrath to the King's enemies to ruine the King's Cause and leave them who had been happy if reduced to a subjection under him to be undone among themselves and Fairfax having defeated almost all the King's Army in the field Ian. 25. 1645. made his way as far as Porthrane a Fort within three miles of Exeter whence Iun. 17. he summoneth Sir Iohn Berkley with Conditions to himself his Officers Citizens and Souldiers who having maintained the Garrison so long and so well that it was looked on as the safest place for the Queen to lye in with the most Illustrious Princess Henrietta Maria now Dutchess of Orleans as the Honourablest place for that Princess to continue in during the War as she did with the Honourable the Lady Dalkeith And as the greatest refuge for distressed Cavaliers in England returns this generous Answer viz. That his Trust was delivered to him from His Majesty which he would discharge to his power That they have no reason to distrust a blessing from God in delivering that Garison who is able to deliver them and may be so pleased without a miracle the Prince having so considerable a Force at so near a distance to them That if all actions of their lives were as innocent as their hands of the blood that hath or shall be spilt in defence of their Righteous Cause they shall in all events rest in perfect peace of mind and will not despair At which brave Reply the General being rather pleased than provoked makes not an angry but a civil and ingenious though ineffectual Retortion and having raised two Bridges over the River Ex blocked up the City on all sides and drawn up within Musket-shot of it leaves the Siege to Sir Hardress Waller going in person against the Prince to the West till the third of April when being distressed beyond all relief they agreed that Commissioners should treat as they did ten days a long time to the impatient Souldiers who complained that they had to do with long-tongued Lawyers concluding upon the most honourable Tearms Fairfax and Cromwel upon some particular policy of their own never offered any other That the Princess Henrietta should depart any whither in England or Wales until His Majesty should give order for her disposal 2. Neither the Cathedral nor Churches to be defaced 3. That the Garison should march out according to the most honourable custome of War and to have free-quarter all the way and not be compelled to march above ten miles a day and with their Arms to the places agreed on The composition of persons of quality should not exceed two years purchase That all persons comprised within these Articles should quietly and peacerbly enjoy all their Goods debts and moveables during the space of four moneths next ensuing and be free from all covenants oaths and protestations and have liberty within the said four moneths in case they shall not make their compositions with the Parliament and shall be resolved to go beyond Sea for which they shall have passes to dispose their said Goods debts and moveables allowed by these Articles c. Articles and a Surrendry so honourable that they were the Rule and Copie of all the following good Articles which the Army made but their masters kept not perhaps their design in granting so good Conditions in all places surrendred to them was to raise themselves a reputation able to give Law to the Parliament that should lose its self in breaking of them I must not forget three things remarkable concerning this Siege 1. A strange providence of God For when this place was so closely besieged that onely the South-side thereof towards the Sea was open unto it incredible number of Laches were found in that open quarter for multitude saith an eye and a mouth-witness like the Quails in the Wilderness though blessed be God unlike them both in cause and effect as not desired with man's destruction nor sent with God's anger as appeared by their safe digestion into wholsome nourishment they were as fat as plentiful so that being sold for two-pence a dozen and under the poor who could have no cheaper as the rich no better meat used to make pottage of them boyling them down therein Several Natural causes were assigned hereof 1. That these Fowl frighted with much shooting on the Land retreated to the Sea-side for their refuge 2. That it is familiar with them in cold Winters such as that was to shelter themselves in the most Southern coasts 3. That some sort of seed was lately sown in those parts which invited them thither for their own repasts however saith our Author the cause of causes was Divine providence thereby providing a feast for many poor people who otherwise had been pinched for provision 2. The faithfulness of the place eminent now for a pair-Royal of extraordinary services to the Crown When besieged by Perkin Warbeck in Hen. 7. time The Western Rebels under Edw. 6. Parliament Forces in King Charles the First 's Reign Their Spirit and Conduct being admirable in the two first and their Allegiance unstained in the last 3. The peculiar Gift of the Governour 1. In Watchfulness both in looking to his own charge and in taking advantages of his enemies 2. In an obliging address going as far sometimes with fair language and good words as others did with money 3. In encouraging the Souldiers labours with his own